If you think that one individual can't make a difference in the world, consider what one cigar can do in a nine-room house.
All books grow homilies by time; they are Temples, at once, and Landmarks.
Remembrance of death saves one from this world's deceit.
The same sun that melts butter hardens clay.
Progress is a continuing effort to make the things we eat, drink, and wear as good as they used to be.
The mind of a wise man is the safest custody of secrets; cheerfulness is the key to friendship; patience and forbearance will conceal many defects.