“There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!”

We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.

Anything a man can imagine, another can create.

If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.

It’s really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.

Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!

Man is never perfect nor contented.

However, everything has an end, everything passes away, even the hunger of people who have not eaten

I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.

Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.

It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning, and let anything better come as a surprise.

On the earth, even in the darkest night, the light never wholly abandons his rule. It is diffused and subtle, but little as may remain, the retina of the eye is sensible of it.

An English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else.

When the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their character changes, we forget the past and dread the future.

What you do for money you do badly.

I saw the world. I learnt of new cultures. I flew across an ocean. I wore women’s clothing. Made a friend. Fell in love. Who cares if I lost a wager?

Man is so constituted that health is a purely negative state. Hunger once satisfied, it is difficult for a man to imagine the horrors of starvation; they cannot be understood without being felt.

A man can get something from war that is impossible to acquire any place else.

Thou canst not recognize not-being (for this is impossible), nor couldst thou speak of it, for thought and being are same.

I love those who yearn for the impossible.

One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.

May I never sit where it is impossible for me to get up and offer my seat to an older man?

It may be impossible to convince women that the illegitimate power which they obtain by degrading themselves is a curse.

People want to forget the impossible. It makes their world safer.

But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.