“But if the folly of men made one angry one would pass one's life in a state of chronic ire.”

“One of the falsest of proverbs is that you must lie on the bed that you have made. The experience of life shows that people are constantly doing things which must lead to disaster, and yet by come chance manage to evade the result of their folly.”

“Men seek but one thing in life - their pleasure.”

“One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul.”

“She gathered herself together. No one could describe the scorn of her expression or the contemptuous hatred she put into her answer. "You men! You filthy dirty pigs! You're all the same, all of you. Pigs! Pigs!”

“I don't understand anything. Life is so strange. I feel like some one who's lived all his life by a duck-pond and suddenly is shown the sea. It makes me a little breathless, and yet it fills me with elation. I don't want to die, I want to live. I'm beginning to feel a new courage. I feel like one of those old sailors who set sail for undiscovered seas and I think my soul hankers for the unknown.”

“To me he seemed one of those persons destined to failure of whom you wonder what purpose it can ever serve that they should have ben born.”