“Very few people know where to look for happiness; fewer still find it.”

“She managed (as so few people do) to look exactly what she was.[Jane]”

“Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.W. Somerset Maugham”

“It may be that I lead the life I've planned for myself it may affect others; the effect may be no greater than the ripple caused by a stone thrown in a pond, but one ripple causes another and that one a third; it's just possible that a few people will see that my way of life offers happiness and peace, and that they in their turn will teach what they have learned to others.”

“I do not know what infinite yearning possesses you, so that you are driven to a perilous, lonely search for some goal where you expect to find a final release from the spirit that torments you. I see you as the eternal pilgrim to some shrine that perhaps does not exist. I do not know to what inscrutable Nirvana you aim. Do you know yourself? Perhaps it is Truth and Freedom that you seek, and for a moment you thought that you might find release in Love. I think your tired soul sought rest in a woman’s arms, and when you found no rest there you hated her. You had no pity for her, because you have no pity for yourself. And you killed her out of fear, because you trembled still at the danger you had barely escaped.”

“Why did you look at the sunset?'Philip answered with his mouth full:Because I was happy.”

“If 50 million people say something foolish, it is still foolish.”