Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.

Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.

Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.

I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.

The great and glorious masterpiece of men is to live to the point. All other things-to reign, to hoard, to build-are, at most, but inconsiderable props and appendages.

Honesty is a question of right and wrong, not a matter of policy

Why did I love her? Because it was her; because it was me.