The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves.
There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.
The fear of becoming a 'has been' keeps some people from becoming anything.
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
There is probably an element of malice in our readiness to overestimate people we are, as it were, laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size.
We feel free when we escape even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.
You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.
