The problem with the common person is that he is so unbearably common!

The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the world’s sorrow too heavy for one heart to suffer.

Niagara Falls is simply a vast unnecessary amount of water going over the wrong way and then falling over unnecessary cliffs...The wonder would be if the water did not fall.

As it was, we always misunderstood ourselves and rarely understood others. Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

Men are such cowards. They outrage every law in the world and are afraid of the world's tongue.

With subtle and finely-wrought temperaments it is always so. Their strong passions must either bruise or bend. They either slay the man, or themselves die. Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and the sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude.

Oh, why will parents always appear at the wrong time? Some extraordinary mistake in nature, I suppose.