Everything will come in due course, if you have the gumption to wait for it.

There is no idea, no fact, which could not be vulgarized and presented in a ludicrous light.

There were moments when I hated everybody I came across, innocent or guilty, and looked at them as thieves who were robbing me of my life with impunity. The most unbearable misfortune is when you yourself become unjust, malignant, vile; you realize it, you even reproach yourself - but you just can't help it.

Every man needs a place to go to.

The more conscious I was of goodness and of all that was 'sublime and beautiful,'the more deeply I sank into my mire and the more ready I was to sink in it altogether.

I have no self-respect. But can a man of acute sensibility respect himself at all?

If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man ... just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man.