The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God.
God made only water, but man made wine.
If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.
Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.
Solitude either develops the mental power, or renders men dull and vicious.
What matters deafness of the ear, when the mind hears? The one true deafness, the incurable deafness, is that of the mind.