But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.

The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.

One said of suicide, As long as one has brains one should not blow them out. And another answered, But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.

We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.

The hunter for aphorisms on human nature has to fish in muddy water, and he is even condemned to find much of his own mind.

The cost of a thing is what I call life which has to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.