There are always four sides to a story: your side, their side, the truth and what really happened.
It is hard to prevent oneself from believing what one so keenly desires.
Girls must be thwarted early in life.
Liberty is obedience to the law which one has laid down for oneself
The French painter Rousseau was once asked why he put a naked woman on a red sofa in the middle of his jungle pictures. He answered, 'I needed a bit of red there.'
The strength of the people is effective only if it is concentrated; it evaporates and is lost when it is dispersed, just as gunpowder scattered on the ground ignites only grain by grain.