Let us not forget that the reasons for human actions are usually incalculably more complex and diverse than we tend to explain them later, and are seldom clearly manifest.

For men are made for happiness, and any one who is completely happy has a right to say to himself, 'I am doing God's will on earth.'

There is immeasurably more left inside than what comes out in words. Your thought, even a bad one, while it is with you, is always more profound, but in words it is more ridiculous and dishonorable.

If it were considered desirable to destroy a human being, the only thing necessary would be to give his work a character of uselessness

I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.

It's curious and ridiculous how much the gaze of a prudish and painfully chaste man touched by love can sometimes express and that precisely at a moment when the man would of course sooner be glad to fall through the earth than to express anything with a word or a look.

I gave up caring about anything, and all the problems disappeared.