Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
There?s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.