“The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.”
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Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
It is vain for the coward to flee death follows close behind it is only by defying it that the brave escape.
We are all full of weakness and errors let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.
It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
