A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.