Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune's always here.

A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.

It doesn't behoove elderly persons to follow fashion in their thinking nor in the way they dress.

Care is taken that trees do not grow into the sky.

A man does not mind being blamed for his faults, and being punished for them, and he patiently suffers much for them; but he becomes impatient if he is required to give them up.

What do people mean when they talk about unhappiness? It is not so much unhappiness as impatience that from time to time possesses men, and then they choose to call themselves miserable.

Give me the benefit of your convictions, if you have any; but keep your doubts to yourself, for I have enough of my own.