The man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part.

We are forced to participate in the games of life before we can possibly learn how to use the options in the rules governing them.

Someone criticized an elderly man for wooing young women. He replied that that was the only way to rejuvenation, which was, afterall, everybody's wish.

Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.

Always to distrust is an error, as well as always to trust.

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.

I must consider more closely this cycle of good and bad days which I find coursing within myself. Passion, attachment, the urge to action, inventiveness, performance, order all alternate and keep their orbit; cheerfulness, vigor, energy, flexibility and fatigue, serenity as well as desire. Nothing disturbs the cycle for I lead a simple life, but I must still find the time and order in which I rotate.