Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.

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.

The strong must learn to be lonely.

The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.

There is so much falsehood both at home and at school. At home one must not speak, and at school we have to stand and tell lies to the children.

The man-at-arms is the only man.

Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.