A Gentleman is a man who will pay his gambling debts even when he knows he has been cheated.

It's like scarlet fever: one has to get it over." "Then one should invent a way of inoculating love, like vaccination.

So long as people do not consider all men as their brothers and do not consider human life as the most sacred thing, which rather than destroy they must consider it their first and foremost duty to support; that is so long as people do not behave towards one another in a religious manner, they will always ruin one another's lives for the sake of personal gain.

Love those you hate you.

The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed in two ways: by a change of life or by a change of conscience.

I don't want to prove anything; I merely want to live, to do no one harm but myself. I have the right to do that, haven't I?

He stepped down, avoiding any long look at her as one avoids long looks at the sun, but seeing her as one sees the sun, without looking.