Woe to the man who offends a small child!

I used to imagine adventures for myself, I invented a life, so that I could at least exist somehow.

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

We must never forget that human motives are generally far more complicated than we are apt to suppose, and that we can very rarely accurately describe the motives of another.

Above all, do not lie to yourself.

They have succeeded in accumulating a greater mass of objects, but the joy in the world has grown less.

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.