The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time. If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well dance with it. A family is a tyranny ruled over by it's weakest member. The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself. Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.
Imagination is the beginning of creation.
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough. We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches. I enjoy convalescence.