Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
He who laughs, lasts!
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.