I didn't even breathe.
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.