People travel to learn; most of them before they start should learn to travel.
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.
When a young man begins to go down hill everything seems to be greased for the occasion.
The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord that it ain't gout.
Fools carry their daggers in their open mouths.