“Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.”

“How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also If I am to be whole.”

“Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not. ”

“I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.”