Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography.

So much had been surrendered! And to such little purpose! There had been mad wilful rejections, monstrous forms of self-torture and self-denial, whose origin was fear and whose result was a degradation infinitely more terrible than that fancied degradation from which, in their ignorance, they had sought to escape.

Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.

If the poor only had profiles there would be no difficulty in solving the problem of poverty

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, do not believe them. The past, the present and the future are but one moment in the sight of God, in whose sight we should try to live. Time and space, succession and extension, are merely accidental conditions of thought. The imagination can transcend them.

Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.