The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

All progress is due to the unreasonable person.

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.

Hate is the revenge of a coward intimidated.

My opportunities were still there, nay, they multiplied tenfold; but the strength and youth to cope with them began to fail, and to need eking out with the shifty cunning of experience.

I can't control what life did to me, but I can control how I react. Therein lies the difference.