I like weights. You know where you stand with them. Well, sometimes you're lying under them, trying not to let them crush you, but you see, you KNOW they'd crush you if they could. There's honesty.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?
Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.