... in marriage the great thing was love, and that with love one would always be happy, for happiness rests only on oneself.

It's hard to love a woman and do anything.

What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.

Be bad, but at least don't be a liar, a deceiver!

Well, my theory is this: war is such a terrible, such an atrocious, thing that no man, at least no Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of beginning it; but it belongs to government alone, when it becomes inevitable.

Why should I live? Why should I do anything? Is there in life any purpose which the inevitable death that awaits me does not undo and destroy?

A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.