History is a set of lies agreed upon.

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

I restore myself when I'm alone.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

To do a great right do a little wrong.

Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.

The gentleman understands rightousness, the petty man understands interest.

A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.

To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.

Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments, and know everything happens for a reason.

We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.

Insanity in individuals is rare - but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.