Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
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.
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.
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.