Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
People were still cramming down the stairs, and more were squeezing past the turnstiles and down the escalators onto the platforms, but it was clear to me that this wasn't going to have a happy ending.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
We are what we repeatedly do.
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.