Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.
Half the failures of this world arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping. - from Guesses at Truth: By Two Brothers by Julian Charles Hare and Augustus William Hare
Nobody who is afraid of laughing, and heartily too, at his friend can be said to have a true and thorough love for him.
How few are our real wants, and how easy is it to satisfy them! Our imaginary ones are boundless and insatiable.
