“The timid man yearns for full value and asks for a tenth. The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on par.”

“To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.”

“Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with.”

“In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.”

“Man has imagined a heaven, and has left entirely out of it the supremest of all his delights...sexual intercourse!...His heaven is like himself: strange, interesting, astonishing, grotesque. I give you my word, it has not a single feature in it that he actually values.”

“The truth is, a person's memory has no more sense that his conscience, and no appreciation whatever of values and proportions.”

“There's one way to find out if a man is honest: ask him; if he says yes, you know he's crooked.”