We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive, it won't be so hard in the end to lie down and rest.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.