If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that.
Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.