The cost of a thing is what I call life which has to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.
Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
Another occupation might have been better.