For a time I would feel I belonged still to a world of straightforward facts; but the feeling would not last long. Something would turn up to scare it away.

A certain simplicity of thought is common to serene souls at both ends of the social scale.

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. All intellectual and artistic ambitions are permissible, up to and even beyond the limit of prudent sanity. They can hurt no one.

The revolutionary spirit is mighty convenient in this, that it frees one from all scruples as regards ideas.

Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.

The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.

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