The love that is never to be realized will often remain a man's guiding ideal.

When all is said, a man's final judgment of his fellows must be based upon his knowledge of himself

An intelligent observation of the facts of human existence will reveal to shallow-minded folk who sneer at the use of coincidence in the arts of fiction and drama that life itself is little more than a series of coincidences.

I am very poor - for a know nothing, understand nothing. It is not a calamitous condition until it is realized.

Truth is so often disconcerting.

...it is human nature, I suppose, to be futile and ridiculous.

A man must sometimes laugh at himself or go mad,’ said he. ‘Few realize it. That is why there are so many madmen in the world.