It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.

There is always a chance that he who sets himself up as his brother's keeper will end up by being his jail-keeper.

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.

The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.

However much we guard against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us.

When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.

To a man utterly without a sense of belonging, mere life is all that matters. It is the only reality in an eternity of nothingness, and he clings to it with shameless despair.