If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.