It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering, for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.

She saw shrewdly that the world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willingly avoids the sight of distress.

I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

Conscience is the guardian in the individual of the rules which the community has evolved for its own preservation.