The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.
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.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.