It is not the level of prosperity that makes for happiness but the kinship of heart to heart and the way we look at the world. Both attitudes are within our power, so that a man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy, and no one can stop him.
How can you expect a man who's warm to understand one who's cold?
There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again.