Laughter is very young, whereas tragedy, except the very highest of all, quickly becomes haggard.
Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.
We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be.
The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.
In our ideals we unwittingly reveal our vices.
To live is often to struggle toward goals one has no desire to reach.
When I was young I pitied the old. Now old, it is the young I pity.
The act of living had been enjoyable; at some point when I was not paying attention, it had turned into a different sort of experience, to whose grimness I had grown so accustomed that I now took it for granted.
Marriage isn't a carnival ride.
The past is the past. Don't let it kill you.
Whoever is the first to cry "Stop the thief" is the one who is guilty.