The end we aim at must be known, before the way can be made.
It is easier and handier for men to flatter than to praise.
The romance of life begins and ends with two blank pages. Age and extreme old age.
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.
As a man grows older it is harder and harder to frighten him.