My standpoint is armed neutrality.

No one is so terribly deceived as he who does not himself suspect it.

It is more blessed to give than to receive, but then it is also more blessed to be able to do without than to have to have.

Repetition is the reality and the seriousness of life.

I do not care for anything. I do not care to ride, for the exercise is too violent. I do not care to walk, walking is too strenuous. I do not care to lie down, for I should either have to remain lying, and I do not care to do that, or I should have to get up again, and I do not care to do that either. Summa summarum: I do not care at all.

The most common despair is...not choosing, or willing, to be oneself...[but] the deepest form of despair is to choose to be another than oneself.

My sorrow is my castle.