Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become an enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.
A few seconds later, I tripped over a steel staircase, bashing my shins.
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
My friends are my estate.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.