The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others.

It is always worth while asking a question, though it is not always worth while answering one.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

My dear boy, the people who love only once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.. Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect---simply a confession of failures. Faithfulness! I must analyse it some day. The passion for property is in it. There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up. But I don't want to interrupt you. Go on with your story.

Lean on principles, one day they'll end up giving way.

Well, one must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life.

My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.