If the second marriage really succeeds, the first one didn't really fail.
Don't be yourself - be someone a little nicer.
Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else.
Always live up to your standards — by lowering them, if necessary.
You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched-out pages.
How strange that the young should always think the world is against them - when in fact that is the only time it is for them.