A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently. For in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me.'