I was escaping from Nature and at last becoming myself, that Other whom I was aspiring to be in the eyes of others.
The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.
There is no book of mine that I reject. That does not mean that I find them good.
Sometimes the truth is too simple for intellectuals.
It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.
My pessimism has never been flabby.