All profound truths startle you in the first announcement.
though fortune's wheel is generally on the turn, sometimes when it gets into the mud, it sticks there.
Knowledge is much like dust - it sticks to one, one does not know how.
Restraint is the golden rule of enjoyment.
How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.
That which is always within our reach, is always the last thing we take; and the chances are, that what we can do every day, we never do at all.