Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge -- fitter to bruise than polish.
The world no longer lets me love, My hope and treasure are above.
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.
If ever wife was happy in a man, compare with me, ye women if you can.
Some laborers have hard hands, and old sinners have brawny consciences.
Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending; a negligent youth is usually attended by an ignorant middle age, and both by an empty old age.