To drink for pleasure may be a distraction, but to drink from misery is always a danger.

I am inclined to believe that a man may be free to do anything he pleases if only he will accept responsibility for whatever he does.

a self-made martyr is a poor thing.

you could have forgiven my committing a sin if you hadn't feared that I had a committed a pleasure as well.

After all, you can't expect men not to judge by appearances.

My first reading of Tolstoy affected me as a revelation from heaven, as the trumpet of the judgment. What he made me feel was notthe desire to imitate, but the conviction that imitation was futile.

Some women enjoy unhappy love affairs, you know, though I have always felt that they are greatly overrated.