Do we ever get what we really want? Do we ever achieve what our powers have ostensibly equipped us for? No: everything works by contraries.

Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?

There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.

What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.

We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.

But youth has a future. The closer he came to graduation, the more his heart beat. He said to himself: “This is still not life, this is only the preparation for life.

I saw that I'd get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.