What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
I never know how much of what I say is true.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.