Stability is when the U. K. and U. S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.
The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
There was but one thing for him;- to persevere till he got her, or till he had finally lost her. And should the latter be his fate, as he began to fear that it would be, then, he would live, but live only, like a crippled man.
Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.
Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can. They are gifted with the powers of being mothers, but not nursing mothers. Nature gives them bosoms for show, but not for use. So Lady Arabella had a wet-nurse.
The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.
Beware of creating tedium!
I'm not an extravagant man. The fact that I can have a coffee out whenever I want still makes me feel grateful.
If you separate from. . . everything you have done in the past, everything that disturbs you about the future. . . and apply yourself to living the life that you are living-that is to say, the present-you can live all the time that remains to you until your death in calm, benevolence, and serenity.
Not kings alone--the people, too, have their flatterers.
Sometimes the best coaching advice you can get is simple acknowledgement that theres nothing else you could have done.