Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
Make a decision, even if it's wrong.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.