"The present state of the world and the whole of life is diseased. If I were a doctor and were asked for my advice, I should reply: Create silence! Bring men to silence!"

"The true humorist does not want to be a humorist, but an earnest man."

"The most dreadful of all diseases is to be a nonentity."

"The greatest danger for man, in the whole of his life, is to lose himself, to lose his own self."

"Dread is an adventure that every man has to undergo."