All persecution is a sign of fear; for if we did not fear the power of an opinion different from our own, we should not mind others holding it.
... can life be made undignified by any act of man?
People who talk of new lives believe there will be no new troubles.
We cannot alter facts, but we can alter our ways of looking at them.
To see a shadow and think it is a tree that is a pity; but to see a tree and to think it a shadow can be fatal.
Every hen thinks she has laid the best egg! Can we not all believe as we choose? But the choice of others - what is that to us? Let them alone.