If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.
It isn't kind to cultivate a friendship just so one will have an audience.
Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.
For all their strength, men were sometimes like little children.
If courage wasn't a standard result of aging it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.
The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart - far more damaging to yourself than to them.