Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can.

No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

Human society, the world, and the whole of mankind is to be found in the alphabet.

Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.

The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man.

I believe in religion against the religious; in the pitifulness of orisons, and in the sublimity of prayer.

Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.