I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.

Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous.

A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectable and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.

Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.

We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us - Martins felt the little jab of dispensability.

'I'm a very emotional person, a person of real extremes, and that's often destructive both to myself and others.'

I do not see why I should e'er turn back, Or those should not set forth upon my track To overtake me, who should miss me here And long to know if still I held …