Our originality shows itself most strikingly not in what we wholly originate but in what we do with that which we borrow from others.

Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love.

It is a strange thing that both the injurer and the injured, the sinner and he who is sinned against, should find in the mass movement an escape from a blemished life.

What greater reassurance can the weak have than that they are like anyone else?

It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is true of men as of dogs.

The wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart from the world; it bursts into our consciousness only when it sinks its teeth and nails into us.

To change everything, simply change your attitude.