To death we owe our life; the passing of one generation opens a way for another.
Winter is the night of vegetation.
Example has far more followers than reason.
Hard workers are usually honest; industry lifts them above temptation.
Many an honest man practices upon himself an amount of deceit sufficient, if practised upon another, and in a little different way, to send him to the state prison.
The highest excellence is seldom attained in more than one vocation. The roads leading to distinction in separate pursuits diverge, and the nearer we approach the one, the farther we recede from the other.