“Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.”

“One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult; one's always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, that's obvious.”

“If you aren't rich you should always look useful.”

“History doesn't pass the dishes again.”

“I have never voted in my life... I have always known and understood that the idiots are in a majority so it's certain they will win.”

“People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them.”

“A poor man in this world can be done to death in two main ways, by the absolute indifference of his fellows in peacetime or by their homicidal mania when there's a war.”

“[W]hen it's slow, they send you home, and when it's busy, they expect you to stay late. They also expect you to be able to come in to cover someone's shift if a co-worker gets sick at the last minu...”

“Poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to p...”

“A man may beg, but a woman has to sell.”