One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that.
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
We bear the world and we make it... There was never a great man who had not a great mother - it is hardly an exaggeration.
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.