When mental sickness increases until it reaches the danger point, do not exhaust yourself by efforts to trace back to original causes. Better accept them as inevitable and save your strength to fight against the effects.

Party politics is now a real farce.

... when we are misunderstood it is always our own fault. What the reader wants most of all is to be able to grasp what we think; but you loftily refuse to comply.

Sex is the most respectable and holy thing in all creation, the most serious act in life.

The publication of a book only brings very paltry results to its author.

Writing a journal means that facing your ocean you are afraid to swim across it, so you attempt to drink it drop by drop.

God has written in the law of nature that when two people are joined in love or friendship, one must always give his heart more perfectly than the other.