If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.