Adversity, which makes us indulgent to others, renders them severe towards us.

True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

An angry woman is vindictive beyond measure, and hesitates at nothing in her bitterness.

Every generous illusion of youth leaves a wrinkle as it departs. Experience is the successive disenchanting of the things of life; it is reason enriched with the heart's spoils.

Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.

Envy, like flame, blackens that which is above it, and which it cannot reach.

It requires less character to discover the faults of others, than to tolerate them.

Do you know a young and beautiful woman who is not ready to flirt-just a little?

Loud indignation against vice often stands for virtue in the eyes of bigots.

Many fortunes, like rivers, have a pure source, but grow muddy as they grow large.

The happiness of the tender heart is increased by what it can take away from the wretchedness of others.

Given a choice, I would never want a life totally devoid of pain, but life is meaningless without some sadness.

You might just be the craziest person I've ever know, but you're also the bravest. - Marcus

Peace ... was contingent upon a certain disposition of the soul a disposition to receive the gift that only detachment from self made possible.

Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.

The youth are hurt. Our majority are youth, under 30. They have no hope. They don't get jobs.

Writing this book I am like a man playing the piano with lead balls attached to his knuckles.

When the wish for peace is genuine, the means for finding it is giving in a form each mind that seeks for it in honesty can understand.

The next major advance in the health of the American people will be determined by what the individual is willing to do for himself.

People who get on at school are the ones who play by the rules, and no one's going to get far in later life playing by the system.

Natural selection is not the only process that changes organisms over time. But is the only process that seemingly designs organisms over time.