To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice.

though pleasure may be purchasable, happiness cannot be bought for a price.

Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.

A doctrine of endurance flows easily from our lips when we are enduring jam and our neighbors dry bread, and it is still possible for us to become resigned to the afflictions of our brother.

Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting.

I hated the things they believe in, the things they so innocently and charmingly pretended. I hated the sanctimonious piety that let people hurt helpless creatures. I hated the prayers and the hymns - the fountains and the red images that coloured their drab music, the fountains filled with blood, the sacrifice of the lamb.

The only natural human beings seem to be those who are making trouble.