Many people have ideas on how others should change; few people have ideas on how they should change.

History is the product of vast, amorphous and indecipherable social movements.

It is by those who have suffered that the world has been advanced.

At school he had done things which had formerly seemed to him very horrid and made him feel disgusted with himself when he did them; but when later on he saw that such actions were done by people of good position and that they did not regard them as wrong, he was able not exactly to regard them as right, but to forget about them entirely or not be at all troubled at remembering them.

He felt that he was himself and did not wish to be anyone else. He only wished now to be better than he had been formerly

Great works of art are only great because they are accessible and comprehensible to everyone.

Teach French and unteach sincerity.