"Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish, know not what is the real happiness of life, just as those who have been tossed on the stormy waters of the ocean on a few frail planks can alone realize the blessings of fair weather."
"I don’t think man was meant to attain happiness so easily. Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it."
"I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol."
"To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others."
"Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance."
"I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride."