The oldest and best known evil was ever more supportable than one that was new and untried.

The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.

There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

Live to avoid all the numerous field mines of life.

I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life.

Justice is peculiarly indispensable to nations . The unjust State is doomed of God to calamity and ruin. This is the teaching of the Eternal Wisdom and of history .

It often feels like I'm not so much living for the present as I am busy making memories for the future.

Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.

I say, carpe the chaos, for in chaos is opportunity.

Being a famous writer is a little like being a tall dwarf. You're on the edge of normality.

Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish.

As far as I am concerned, war itself is immoral.