Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.

Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.

Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.

Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.

You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.

It is no use lying to one's self.

Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.