We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
'Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent morality, I am forever letting tomorrow's work slop backwards into today's, and doing painfully and nervously today what I could do quickly and easily tomorrow.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.
Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.