There is no support so strong as the strength that enables one to stand alone.

Life may take away happiness. But it can't take away having had it.

a self-made martyr is a poor thing.

No idea is so antiquitated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not some day be antiquitated . . . to seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality.

Moderation has never yet engineered an explosion

Youth is the season of tragedy and despair. Youth is the time when one's whole life is entangled in a web of identity, in a perpetual maze of seeking and of finding, of passion and of disillusion, of vague longings and of nameless griefs, of pity that is a blade in the heart, and of 'all the little emptiness of love.

But, of course only morons would ever think or speak of themselves as intellectuals. That's why they all look so sad.