Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.
I not only want to be loved, I want to be told that I'm loved.
It's all one web, sir. The prosperity of the country is one web.
Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled egg; and when it takes to cackling will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion.
The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.