Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries.
Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
Begin at once to live and count each separate day as a separate life.
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
Friendship always benefits love sometimes injures.
Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage or my house...