The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
Act as if it were impossible to fail.