It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.