Alas! the fleeting years, how they roll on!

Rule your mind or it will rule you.

Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.

There is a fault common to all singers. When they're among friends and are asked to sing they don't want to, and when they're not asked to sing they never stop.

He will often have to scratch his head, and bite his nails to the quick. [To succeed he will have to puzzle his brains and work hard.]

He who speaks ill of an absent friend, or fails to take his part if attacked by another, that man is a scoundrel.

The trainer trains the docile horse to turn, with his sensitive neck, whichever way the rider indicates.