Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
I am not young enough to know everything.
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle.
People fail forward to success.
All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.