Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
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!
A man can do all things if he but wills them.
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.