Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.