The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.
Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
Your first appearance, he said to me, is the gauge by which you will be measured; try to manage that you may go beyond yourself in after times, but beware of ever doing less.
I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.