The fact is - nothing comes, at least nothing good. All has to be fetched.
To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.
Proverbs are potted wisdom.
Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred.
You have not fulfilled every duty unless you have fulfilled that of being pleasant.
The longer I live, the more deeply am I convinced that that which makes the difference between one person and another-between the weak and the powerful, the great and the insignificant-is energy-invisible determination.