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.
“I went to dance classes from 9 in the morning until 1, then to school from 3 to 10 at night, always under the threat that if I failed a single course I could forget about dancing.”
“I started reading the big histories and the small histories, the memoirs and so forth. At some point, I found the diary of William E. Dodd.”