1. “Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.”
2. “Conquered people tend to be witty.”
3. “Some people, if they didn’t make it hard for themselves, might fall asleep.”
4. “Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.”
5. “You have to fight for your life. That’s the chief condition on which you hold it.”
6. “A man should be able to hear, and to bear, the worst that could be said of him.”
7. “A man is only good as what he loves.”
8. “When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.”
9. “You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half.”
10. “Readiness to answer all questions is the infallible sign of stupidity.”
11. “Facts are always sensational.”
12. “Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.”
13. “A good novel is wort more than the best scientific study.”
14. “Sentiments and brutality, never one without other, like fossils and oil.”
15. “Strict seriousness was far more dangerous than any joke.”
