Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul. The best way to chear yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. When you cannot get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one. The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not. We ought never do wrong when people are looking.
Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing. I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position. It is better to deserve honours and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them. Let us endeavour to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. Don't part with your illusions.