You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always.
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.