To expect a man to retain everything that he has ever read is like expecting him to carry about in his body everything that he has ever eaten.

That I could clamber to the frozen moon. And draw the ladder after me.

It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us.

Every human perfection is allied to a defect into which it threatens to pass, but it is also true that every defect is allied to a perfection.

Thus also every keen pleasure is an error and an illusion, for no attained wish can give lasting satisfaction.

What disturbs and depresses young people is the hunt for happiness on the firm assumption that it must be met with in life. From this arises constantly deluded hope and so also dissatisfaction. Deceptive images of a vague happiness hover before us in our dreams, and we search in vain for their original. Much would have been gained if, through timely advice and instruction, young people could have had eradicated from their minds the erroneous notion that the world has a great deal to offer them.

There are 80,000 prostitutes in London alone and what are they, if not bloody sacrifices on the altar of monogamy?