Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.

How few writers can prostitute all their powers!

It is so difficult - at least, I find it difficult - to understand people who speak the truth.

...though nothing is damaged, everything is changed.

If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run

We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.

Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them.