Let me remind you of the old maxim: people under suspicion are better moving than at rest, since at rest they may be sitting in the balance without knowing it, being weighed together with their sins.

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Everything you say is boring and incomprehensible, but that alone doesn't make it true.

One tells as few lies as possible only by telling as few lies as possible, and not by having the least possible opportunity to do so.

There are times when I am convinced I am unfit for any human relationship.

I won't give up the diary again. I must hold on here, it is the only place I can.

Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.