Someone dragged me by my arms out onto the road, then shoved me, stumbling, down a paved road.
Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
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.
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .