No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.
I was not a child prodigy, because a child prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up.
The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.