Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.
It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
The love that you withhold is the pain that you carry.
Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.