No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.
Results are what you expect, and consequences are what you get.
Science is organized knowledge.
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
Sex is like money; only too much is enough.
A signature always reveals a man's character - and sometimes even his name.
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.
In solitude, where we are least alone.
The best way out is always through.
Speak clearly, if you speak at all; Carve every word before you let it fall.
Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.
When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
Fatigue dulls the pain, but awakes enticing thoughts of death. So! that is the way in which you are tempted to overcome your loneliness— by making the ultimate escape from life.— No! It may be that death is to be your ultimate gift to life: it must not be an act of treachery against it.
Razors pain you; Rivers are damp; Acids stain you; And drugs cause cramp. Guns aren’t lawful; Nooses give; Gas smells awful; You might as well live.
One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose.