Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.