“In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.”

“Work is a necessary evil to be avoided”

“We pity in others only those evils which we have ourselves experienced”

“Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty”

“He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator”

“If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.”