If only we could see in advance all the harm that can come from the good we think we are doing.

Man never reasons so much and becomes so introspective as when he suffers; since he is anxious to get at the cause of his sufferings, to learn who has produced them, and whether it is just or unjust that he should have to bear them.

We ride through life on the beast within us. Beat the animal, but you can't make it think.

Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

It is the hardest thing to close the open hand of someone you love.

Woman - for example, look at her case! She turns tantalizing inviting glances on you. You seize her. No sooner does she feel herself in your grasp than she closes her eyes. It is a sign of her mission, the sign by which she says to man: "Blind yourself, for I am blind."

Life is little more than a loan shark: It exacts a very high rate of interest for the few pleasures it concedes