Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.

It echoed loudly within him because he was hollow at the core.

Necessity, they say, is mother of invention, but fear, too, is not barren of ingenious suggestions.

I was constantly watching myself, my secret self, as dependent on my actions as my own personality

Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham.

The human heart is vast enough to contain all the world.

The mind of man is capable of anything.