They say a woman always remembers her first lover with affection; but perhaps she does not always remember him.

The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

The great man is too often all of a piece; it is the little man that is a bundle of contradictory elements. He is inexhaustible. You never come to the end of the surprises he has in store for you.

In the conduct of life we make use of deliberation to justify ourselves in doing what we want to do.

What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?

Because a man can write great works he is none the less a man.

Some of us look for the Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love. It is all the same Way and it leads nowhither.