Think what stupid things the people must have done with their money who say they're 'happier without'.

Life is the saddest thing there is, next to death.

Only the fact that we are unaware how well our nearest know us enables us to live with them.

She was so evidently the victim of the civilization which had produced her, that the links of her bracelet seemed like manacles chaining her to her fate.

The visible world is a daily miracle for those who have eyes and ears; and I still warm hands thankfully at the old fire, though every year it is fed with the dry wood of more old memories.

Half the trouble in life is caused by pretending there isn't any.

[B]ut he had lived in a world in which, as he said, no one who loved ideas need hunger mentally.