When we are not sure, we are alive.

Despair

Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin the corrupt or evil man never practices. He always has hope. He never reaches the freezing-point of knowing absolute failure. Only the man of goodwill carries always in his heart this capacity for damnation.

Happiness

Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil --or else an absolute ignorance.

Lies and Lying

In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

Misers and Misery

People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery.

Sentiment

Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

Ugliness

Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.