Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
All the world's a cage.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.