Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
A friend married is a friend lost.
It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life
Don't use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you along with it... it's just as though it were built upon a shifting quagmire. A moment may come, a word can be spoken, and both you and all this splendor will collapse.
Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.