We have no dreams at all or interesting ones. We should learn to be awake the same way- not at all or in an interesting manner

All idealists imagine that the causes they serve are fundamentally better than any other causes in the world, and they refuse to believe that if their cause is to flourish at all it requires precisely the same foul-smelling manure that is necessary to all other human undertakings.

One does not know - cannot know - the best that is in one.

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.

But what if pleasure and pain should be so closely connected that he who wants the greatest possible amount of the one must also have the greatest possible amount of the other, that he who wants to experience the "heavenly high jubilation," must also be ready to be "sorrowful unto death"?

The most dangerous physicians are those born actors who imitate born physicians with a perfectly deceptive guile.

The quality of a marriage is proven by its ability to tolerate an occasional "exception.