I never turned to drink. It seemed to turn to me.
Diligence is the mother of good luck.
Never confuse motion with action.
If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others, and yet at the same time express yourself as firmly fix'd in your present opinions, modest, sensible men, who do not love disputation, will probably leave you undisturbed in the possession of your error.
I have met the enemy, and it is the eyes of other people.
There are more old drunkards than old doctors.