Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living.

You know I have loved him always. But we are very poor. Who, being loved, is poor? Oh, no one. I hate my riches. They are a burden.

The supreme vice is shallowness.

It is immoral to use private property in order to alleviate the horrible evils that result from the institutions of private property.

I don’t write this letter to put bitterness into your heart, but to pluck it out of mine. For my own sake I must forgive you.

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal.