It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
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.
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.