"Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution"
"The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments"
"One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels"
"The faster the word sticks to the thought, the more beautiful is the effect"
"Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in"
"I am a man-pen. I feel through the pen, because of the pen"
"Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars"
"Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this. His name is Legion"
