I am prepared for the worst but hope for the best.

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An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.

There is no education like adversity.

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

Like all great travellers I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

The miserable have no other medicine, but only hope.

Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.

Know your own happiness. Want for nothing but patience - or give it a more fascinating name: Call it hope.

Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose - and commit myself to - what is best for me.