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.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.