Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

I felt it shelter to speak to you.

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its troubles, but it empties it of its strength.

Words empowered by justice can never be silenced.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.

Human beings must always be on the watch for the coming of wonders.

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

From our first babblings to our last word, we make but one statement, and that is our life.

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

One shouldn't just hope to be treated well: one must insist on it.

To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.