There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn?t hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
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 you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.