I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
You always pass failure on the way to success.
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.
In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.
I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.