The most offensive is not their lying - one can always forgive lying - lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to truth - what is offensive is that they lie and worship their own lying.

For broad understanding and deep feeling, you need pain and suffering.

Of course I shall go astray often...for who does not make mistakes? But I cannot go far wrong for I have seen the truth.

Money is coined liberty.

Grown-up people do not know that a child can give exceedingly good advice even in the most difficult case.

It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

In summer, intolerable closeness; in winter, unendurable cold. All the floors were rotten. Filth on the floors an inch thick; one could slip and fall.