To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.

The heart was made to be broken

Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world.

It is well for our vanity that we slay the criminal, for if we suffered him to live he might show us what we had gained by his crime.

Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature it requires, in fact, that nature of a true Individualist to sympathize with a friend's success.

Misfortunes one can endure - they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults - Ah! there is the sting of life.