His experience of life in an office had made him determine never to have anything more to do with one ...
There is only one thing about which I am certain and this is that there is very little about which one can be certain.
Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
I myself stand on one side and the rest of the world on the other. There is an abyss between, that no power can cross, a strange barrier more insuperable than a mountain of fire. Husband and wife know...
He yearned above all things for experience andfelt himself ridiculous because at his age he had not enjoyedthat which all fiction taught him was the most importantthing in life; but he had the unfortu...
The illusion of free will is so strong in my mind that I can't get away from it, but I believe it is only an illusion. But it is an illusion which is one of the strongest motives of my actions. Before...
She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.
What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.
It is very difficult to know people and I don't think one can ever really know any but one's own countrymen. For men and women are not only themselves; they are also the region in which they are born,...
It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you for it was the illusion they loved.
When he sacrifices himself man for a moment is greater than God, for how can God, infinite and omnipotent, sacrifice himself?
He found that it was easy to make a heroic gesture, but hard to abide by its results.
But that wasn't the chief thing that bothered me: I couldn't reconcile myself with that preoccupation with sin that, so far as I could tell, was never entirely absent from the monks' thoughts. I'd kno...
If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.
The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.
You must let bygones be bygones.
Man's desire for the approval of his fellows is so strong, his dread of their censure so violent, that he himself has brought his enemy (conscience) within his gates; and it keeps watch over him, vigi...
If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.