The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men's pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish.

One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better.

Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.

Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.

Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. The fearful thing about it is that, not knowing what truth may be, we can still recognize lies.

There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.