The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.
Solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life; we receive counsels and comforts, we get under no other condition.
Injustice is a sixth sense, and rouses all the others.
One should not run on a new road.
move not in your anger; it is like putting to sea in a tempest.
... if fiction does not show us a better life than reality, what is the good of it?