...I'm no longer prepared to accept what people say and what's written in books. I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer.

Look into any man's heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.

Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society's tools, neither more nor less.

Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.

It's such sport with these heroes of finance: they are like beads on a string — when one slips off, all the rest follow.

It's not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that walks in us. It's all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we can't get rid of them.

A friend married is a friend lost.