There are some occasions in which a man must tell half his secret, in order to conceal the rest - Philip Dormer Stanhope

Pleasure is the rock which most young people split upon: they launch out with crowded sails in quest of it, but without a compass to direct their course, or reason sufficient to steer the vessel; for want of which, pain and shame, instead of pleasure, are the returns of their voyage.

If you have an hour, will you not improve that hour, instead of idling it away?

Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends.