Contempt is the only way to triumph over calumny.

Who would venture upon the journey of life, if compelled to begin it at the end?

Hope says to us constantly, "Go on, go on..."

Contempt is the only way to triumph over calumny.

It is with many enterprises as with striking fire; we do not meet with success except by reiterated efforts, and often at the instant when we despaired of success.

Pleasure and pain, the good and the bad, are so intermixed that we can not shun the one without depriving ourselves of the other.

three-fourths of all marriages are unhappy.