Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom.
Life is a country that the old have seen, and lived in. Those who have to travel through it can only learn from them.
All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so.
If you would live happily, do not exaggerate life's evils, nor slight her blessings.
Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice.
We are all of us more or less echoes, repeating involuntarily the virtues, the defects, the movements, and the characters of those among whom we live.