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.
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.