I am always with myself, and it is I who am my tormentor.

I don't think badly of people. I like everybody, and I'm sorry for everybody.

If every man could act as he chose, the whole of history would be a tissue of disconnected accidents.

And whatever people might say about the time having come when young people must arrange their future for themselves, she could not believe it any more than she could believe that loaded pistols could ever be the best toys for five-year-old children.

The idea shared by many that life is a vale of tears is just as false as the idea shared by the great majority, the idea to which youth and health and riches incline you, that life is a place of entertainment.

I can’t think of you and myself apart. You and I are the same to me

A monkey was carrying two handfuls of peas. One little pea dropped out. He tried to pick it up, and split twenty. He tried to pick up the twenty, and split them all. Then he lost his temper, scattered the peas in all directions and ran away