It is human nature to overestimate the thing you've never had.
Life may take away happiness. But it can't take away having had it.
I liked human beings, but I did not love human nature.
What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.
you could have forgiven my committing a sin if you hadn't feared that I had a committed a pleasure as well.
No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book.