To venture causes anxiety. Not to venture is to lose oneself.

People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.

The daily press is the evil principle of the modern world, and time will only serve to disclose this fact with greater and greater clearness. The capacity of the newspaper for degeneration is sophistically without limit, since it can always sink lower and lower in its choice of readers. At last it will stir up all those dregs of humanity which no state or government can control.

There are men who are wanting in the comparative, they as a rule are the most interesting.

I have, I believe, the courage to doubt everything; I have, I believe, the courage to fight against everything; but I do not have the courage to acknowledge anything, the courage to possess, to own anything.

Take a chance and you may lose. Take not a chance and you have lost already.

My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.