An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her…but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.
Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary.
I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth
The world of the happy is quite different from that of the unhappy.
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.