Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.
There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.
A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
I am going away with him to an unknown country where I shall have no past and no name, and where I shall be born again with a new face and an untried heart.
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.
Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.
Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
On this narrow planet, we have only the choice between two unknown worlds. One of them tempts us - ah! what a dream, to live in that! - the other stifles us at the first breath.
No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men.