A man is not little when he finds it difficult to cope with circumstances, but when circumstances overmaster him.
We are our own aptest deceiver.
Everything is hard before it is easy.
Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.
Just as, out of habit, one consults a run-down clock as though it were still going, so too one may look at the face of a beautiful woman as though he still loved her.