Party politics is now a real farce.

I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being.

A cigar numbs sorrow and fills the solitary hours with a million gracious images.

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

Nowadays it seems that moral education is no longer considered necessary. Attention is wholly centered on intelligence, while the heart life is ignored.

And I refused to make any sacrifices; for nothing on earth seemed more valuable than my peace of mind, my pleasure and my acclaim.

Learned women are ridiculed because they put to shame unlearned men.