Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
People look with sympathetic eyes only at the blossom and the fruit, and disregard the long period of transition during which the one is ripening into the other.
Years teach us more than books.
Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
Being alone when one's belief is firm, is not to be alone.