There is a wild, splendid, intoxicating joy that follows work well done.
Orthodoxy is a corpse that doesn't know it's dead.
Do not dump your woes upon people — keep the sad story of your life to yourself. Troubles grow by recounting them.
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
An enemy is anyone who tells the truth about you.
Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.