The great majority of men are but tangled skeins, imperfect keyboards, so many specimens of restless or stagnant chaos--and what makes their situation almost hopeless is the fact that they take pleasure in it. There is no curing a sick man who believes himself in health.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Accept life, and you must accept regret.

Put personal ambition away from you, and then you will find consolation in living or in dying, whatever may happen to you.

Almost everything comes from almost nothing.

What we do not understand we have no right to judge

It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.