Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary.
I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas: they've gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.
The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.
My thoughts ran a wool-gathering.
You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.
The public doesn't want new music; the main thing that it demands of a composer is that he be dead.
Isn't it better to have men be ungrateful, than to miss a chance to do good?
He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead, for she is wont to favor the bold.
Deliberately to pursue happiness is not the surest way of achieving it. Seek it for its own sake and I doubt whether you will find it.
After crosses and losses, men grow humbler and wiser.
By nature's kindly disposition, most questions which it is beyond man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.
It's just like magic. When you live by yourself, all your annoying habits are gone!
The engineering is secondary to the vision.
Who is content with nothing possesses all things.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
He is not rich that possesses much, but he that covets no more; and he is not poor that enjoys little, but he that wants too much.
Victory over fear is the first spiritual duty of man.
Power without [the people's] confidence is nothing.