Distance lends enchantment to the view.

We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our list of sacred things. And yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy to us.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that but the really great make you feel that you too can become great. When you are seeking to bring big plans to fruition it is important with whom you regularly associate. Hang out with friends who are like-minded and who are also designing purpose-filled lives. Similarly be that kind of a friend for your friends.

Too bad that youth is wasted on the young.

Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

Give a man a reputation as an early riser and he can sleep 'til noon.

By common consent of all the nations and all the ages the most valuable thing in this world is the homage of men, whether deserved or undeserved.