No child should ever be too sad to play.

I am who I am because the tears of my past have watered the magnificence of my present.

The amusements of life, he argued, should be accepted with the same philosophy as its ills. ("The Striding Place")

Times of terror and the deepest misery may arrive, but if there is to be any happiness in this misery it can only be a spiritual happiness, related to the past in the rescue of the culture of early ages and to the future in a serene and indefatigable championship of the spirit in a time which would otherwise completely swallow up the material.

There were happy days, with watermelon, and sad days of whiskey.

Then he thought himself unhappy, but happiness was all in the future; now he felt that the best happiness was already in the past.