I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
You can learn as much - or more - from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.