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.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.
Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.