I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer.
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.
It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.
Each body has its art...