The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.