It could just be a shift on the axis.
Expectation improperly indulged in must end in disappointment.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
Our aspirations are our possibilities.
Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don't think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.
But even more: all at once the Jew also becomes liberal and begins to rave about the necessary progress of mankind.
In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters.
I have stacks and stacks of journals. I'll change the names if I ever decide to publish them.
But monotony doesn't make for painlessness.