By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.

The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.

If one is honest there is no need to remember.

Conformity—the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority.

Well, my book is written-let it go. But if it were only to write over again there wouldn't be so many things left out. They burn in me; and they keep multiplying; but now they can't ever be said. And besides, they would require a library-and a pen warmed up in hell.

There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought -a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities!

The most permanent lessons in morals are those which come, not of book teaching, but of experience.