When in doubt, choose greatness.
Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we have learned to walk.
We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of the self.
The greatest problem with women is how to contrive that they should seem our equals
It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing.
A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends.