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

In endeavor itself there is a certain dynamic entertainment, affording an illusion of useful purpose. With achievement the illusion is dispelled. Man's greatest accomplishment is to produce change. The only good in life is study, because study is an endeavor that never reaches fulfillment. It busies a man to the end of his days, and it aims at the only true reality in all this world of shams and deceits.

Only he who is without anything is without enemies.

Open the history of the past at whatsoever page you will and there you shall find coincidence at work bringing about events that the merest chance might have averted. Indeed, coincidence may be defined as the tool used by Fate to shape the destinies of men and nations.

There remained the sea, which is free to all, and particularly alluring to those who feel themselves at war with humanity.

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

In life we pay for the evil that in life we do.