No man is a complete mystery except to himself.

For neither our greatest fears nor our greatest hopes are beyond the limits of our strength--we are able in the end both to dominate the first and to achieve the second.

If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure.

The heart does not lie.

People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others.

Often it is just lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering very much.

Even from the simplest, the most realistic point of view, the countries which we long for occupy, at any given moment, a far larger place in our actual life than the country in which we happen to be.