Someone dragged me by my arms out onto the road, then shoved me, stumbling, down a paved road.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.