We make allowance for necessity.
Rashness attends youth, as prudence does old age.
The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.
A wise man does nothing by constraint.
The nearer I approach death the more I feel like one who is in sight of land at last and is about to anchor in one's home port after a long voyage.
Learning maketh young men temperate, is the comfort of old age, standing for wealth with poverty, and serving as an ornament to riches.