It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.
I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
We only do well the things we like doing.
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word – excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death.
Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
Evil is obvious only in retrospect.