There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.

When a new truth enters the world, the first stage of reaction to it is ridicule, the second stage is violent opposition, and in the third stage, that truth comes to be regarded as self-evident.

When a man has reached a condition in which he believes that a thing must happen because he does not wish it, and that what he wishes to happen never will be, this is really the state called desperation.

Men need some kind of external activity, because they are inactive within.

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

It is only the hope of what is claimed that begets and nurishes the wish.