Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.
Beyond positive and negative, what is Reality?
If we are unduly absorbed in improving our lives we may forget altogether to live them.
. . . preliminary accounting, banking and surveying (known as arithmetic, algebra and geometry).
To be free from convention is not to spurn it but not to be deceived by it.
Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can't be said.
Never give in, never! Be it concerning large things or small things, never, never, never!
Also, I have found that I really like to work in English. It's very strange because it's exactly the opposite of what I thought it would be like.
Either way, things are a lot better - either a lot better than they were or a lot better than they're going to be.
Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.