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.

A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be.

Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else's body.

Lessons are not given, they are taken.

There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.

We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.

Childhood is not only the childhood we really had but also the impressions we formed of it in our adolescence and maturity. That is why childhood seems so long. Probably every period of life is multiplied by our reflections upon the next.