Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.
The future is the shape of things to come.
Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.
If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.
I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.
If I get married, I want to be very married.
If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.
It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.
I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.
If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.
Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose
The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.
To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.
Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included
I think it can be shown that the law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.
I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.
We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.
