Think of the ills from which you are exempt.

How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.

Never be sad for what is over, just be glad it was once yours. Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Politeness smooths wrinkles.

Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom.

Tormented by the cursed ambition always to put a whole book in a page, a whole page in a sentence, and this sentence in a word. I am speaking of myself.

When you give, give with joy and smiling.