Write to Please Yourself. When You write to Please Others You end up Pleasing No one.

... there is much truth in the Italian saying, 'Make yourselves sheep, and the wolves will eat you.'

The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much; always to distrust our own reason, and sometimes that of our friends; never to pretend to wit, but to make that of others appear as much as possibly we can; to hearken to what is said and to answer to the purpose.

When you are finished changing, you are finished.

The world is full of fools and faint hearts; and yet everyone has courage enough to bear the misfortunes, and wisdom enough to manage the affairs, of his neighbor.

Eat to live, not live to eat.

He that doth what he should not, shall feel what he would not.