At 18 our convictions are hills from which we look; At 45 they are caves in which we hide.
Either you think or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.
In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.
No such thing as a man willing to be honest that would be like a blind man willing to see.
Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination.
The character of a people may be ruined by charity.
