Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
I have the worst memory ever so no matter who comes up to me - they're just, like, 'I can't believe you don't remember me!" I'm like, 'Oh Dad I'm sorry!'
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
Let me tell you, quite frankly, it took a while and a lot of therapy to get here.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
Whatever you do, do it to the purpose; do it thoroughly, not superficially. Go to the bottom of things. Any thing half done, or half known, is in my mind, neither done nor known at all. Nay, worse, for it often misleads.