The loss of a much-prized treasure is only half felt when we have not regarded its tenure as secure.

In politics as on a sickbed men toss from side to side in hope of lying more comfortably.

So, lively brisk old fellow, don't let age get you down. White hairs or not, you can still be a lover.

The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief.

The summit charms us, the steps to it do not; with the heights before our eyes, we like to linger in the plain. It is only a part of art that can be taught; but the artist needs the whole. He who is only half instructed speaks much and is always wrong; who knows it wholly is content with acting and speaks seldom or late.

Ah! my poor brain is racked and crazed, My spirit and senses amazed!

Human life runs its course in the metamorphosis between receiving and giving.