Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.
He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
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.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.