Happiness Is Above All Things The Calm,

Before I Write Down One Word, I Have To Have The Character In My Mind Through And Through. I Must Penetrate Into The Last Wrinkle Of His Soul.

Whether I Pound Or Am Being Pounded, All The Same There Will Be Moaning!

Everything That I Have Written Is Closely Related To Something That I Have Lived Through.

Almost Everyone Who Has Gone To The Bad Early In Life Has Had A Deceitful Mother.

One Of The Qualities Of Liberty Is That, As Long As It Is Being Striven After, It Goes On Expanding. Therefore, The Man Who Stands In The Midst Of The Struggle And Says, 'i Have It,' Merely Shows By Doing So That He Has Just Lost It.