It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
I never know how much of what I say is true.
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.
You're dealing with the demon of external validation. You can't beat external validation. You want to know why? Because it feels sooo good.
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.