It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.
What we buy, and pay for, is part of ourselves.
All revolutions are treason until they are accomplished.
When a man has calamity upon calamity the world generally concludes that he must be a very wicked man to deserve them. Perhaps the world is right; but it is also just possible that the world ... may be wrong.
move not in your anger; it is like putting to sea in a tempest.
A man nearly sixty is just as ready to suppose himself fascinating as a man of twenty.