Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
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.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.