Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.

We cannot win the weak by sharing our wealth with them. They feel our generosity as oppression.

We can remember minutely and precisely only the things which never really happened to us.

Often, the thing we pursue most passionately is but a substitute for the one thing we really want and cannot have.

It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.

A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people's business.

Even in slight things the experience of the new is rarely without some stirring of foreboding.