... can life be made undignified by any act of man?
We cannot alter facts, but we can alter our ways of looking at them.
Poets, when they write of love, give themselves and everyone else away!
Luck enters into every contingency. You are a fool if you forget it -- and a greater fool if you count upon it.
Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it.
Knowledge cannot be changed, but the use to which it may be put can very easily be changed.