Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.