Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.