We learn not for life but for the debating-room.
Sentimentality is a failure of feeling.
The imagination is one of the forces of nature.
The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.
Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
Be a little aware before you are trapped! Marriage is a trap: you will be trapped by the woman and the woman will be trapped by you. It is a mutual trap. And then legally you are allowed to torture each other forever.
He felt like a man who, chasing rainbows, has had one of them suddenly turn and bite him in the leg.
Give light and people will find the way.
That’s why; he’s worried about how his life is turning out, and he’s lonely, and lonely people are the bitterest of them all