It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.
You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.
You create your opportunities by asking for them.
We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!