Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.
We heap up around us things that we do not need as the crow makes piles of glittering pebbles.
The trouble with organizing a thing is that pretty soon folks get to paying more attention to the organization than to what they're organized for.
Life begins at eighty.
Remember well, and bear in mind, a constant friend is hard to find.
There is nothing wrong with God's plan that man should earn his bread by the sweat of his brow.