A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
I was pushed roughly but dispassionately onto my stomach and something went twice around my wrists and then tightened up as well, feeling like baling wire and biting cruelly.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.