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.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
Facts are the enemy of truth.
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.
You can only cure retail but you can prevent wholesale.
By learning to discover and value our ordinariness, we nurture a friendliness toward ourselves and the world that is the essence of a healthy soul.