The great epochs of our life come when we gain the courage to rechristen our evil as what is best in us.

Kindliness, friendliness, the courtesy of the heart, are ever-flowing streams of non egoistic impulses, and have given far more powerful assistance to culture than even those much more famous demonstrations which are called pity, mercy, and self-sacrifice.

Everyone carries within himself an image of womanliness derived from his mother: it is this that determines whether, on the whole,he will revere women, or despise them, or remain generally indifferent to them.

What doesn't kill you make you stronger.

Pardon me, my friends, I have ventured to paint my happiness on the wall.

There will be but few people who, when at a loss for topics of conversation, will not reveal the more secret affairs of their friends.

That lies should be necessary to life is part and parcel of the terrible and questionable character of existence.