| It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth. |
| Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life. |
| I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know. |
| How does one kill fear, I wonder How do you shoot a spectre through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by the spectral throat |
| The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage. |
| Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of illusions. |
| All a man can betray is his conscience. |
| The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. |
| Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow. |
| Words, as is well known, are great foes of reality. |
| You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends. |
| The mind of man is capable of anything--because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future. |
| As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook. |
| The way of even the most jusitifiable revolution is prepared by personal impulses disguised into creeds. |
| Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it. |
| I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace. |
