I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.

This religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregiousof sins.... It is one step away from protestantism.

Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.

I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.

Far less envy in America than in France.