Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.

You're a fine fastidious young man, as proud as a lion, as gentle as a girl. You'd make a good catch for the devil.

And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink.

Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.

Those who spend too fast never grow rich.

When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.

A courage which looks easy & yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons - the least rewarded of all forms of courage.