Those who feel themselves despised do well to look despising.
I am ignorant and impotent and yet, somehow or other, here I am, unhappy, no doubt, profoundly dissatisfied ... In spite of everything I survive.
Sleep is the most blessed and blessing of all natural graces.
Men make use of their illnesses at least as much as they are made use of by them.
Liberties are not given, they are taken.
Every gain made by individuals or societies is almost instantly taken for granted. The luminous ceiling toward which we raise our longing eyes becomes, when we have climbed to the next floor, a stretch of disregarded linoleum beneath our feet.