When I say what I'm reading, this is what I need. I know the ills that plague me.
Never is work without reward, or reward without work.
There is an old saying which, from its truth, has become proverbial, that friendships should be immortal, enmities mortal.
He is truly a man who will not permit himself to be unduly elated when fortune's breeze is favorable, or cast down when it is adverse.
Greater is our terror of the unknown.
There is nothing that is more often clothed in an attractive garb than a false creed.
Nothing hurts worse than the loss of money.
Do not let me hear Of the wisdom of old men, but rather of their folly, Their fear of fear and frenzy, their fear of possession, Of belonging to another, or to others, or to God. The only wisdom we can hope to acquire Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless.
Give a man secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden; give him nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.
You can be obsessed with the bad things people say and the good things; either way, you're obsessed with yourself, and I'm not - you can become unhinged so easily.
. . . well, if women's work was never done, why trouble about how much of it wasn't being accomplished at any given moment?