"One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines" — François VI. de La Rochefoucauld

All our discontents about what we want appeared to me to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.

Source: The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

Source: Walden (1854)

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife

Source: Pride and Prejudice (1813)

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake

Source: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849)

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance

Source: Pride and Prejudice (1813)

All are architects of fate, working in these walls of time

Source: The Builders, The Seaside and the Fireside (1850)

François VI. de La Rochefoucauld Quote