"The only way to succeed is to make people hate you."

"Enmeshed in the details of life, a diary rarely talks about the important things. It turns out that most of life happens off-screen."

"...and in the long run, disease is more humane than war or starvation. My, isn't that gloomy?"

"Any new venture goes through the following stages: enthusiasm, complication, disillusionment, search for the guilty, punishment of the innocent, and decoration of those who did nothing."

"I'm not going to bed after all. Somebody around here hath murdered sleep. Good for him."

"Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain."

"Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith."

"It's not practice that makes perfect....but perfect practice that makes perfect."

"Of all human ills, greatest is fortune's wayward tyranny."

"Examples is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh."

"REPOSE, v.i. To cease from troubling."

"He who has nothing and wants something is less frustrated than he who has something and wants more."