When we say we are certain so-and-so can't possibly have done it, what we mean is that we think he very likely did.

So, I never lose a sense of the whimsical and perilous charm of daily life, with its meetings and words and accidents.

If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth

What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?

It is through the cracks in our brains that ecstasy creeps in.

Youth is the time for adventures of the body, but age for the triumphs of the mind.

People before the public live an imagined life in the thought of others, and flourish or feel faint as their self outside themselves grows bright or dwindles in that mirror.