Grief is not in the nature of things, but in opinion.
There has never been a poet or orator who thought another better than himself.
It is certain that memory contains not only philosophy, but all the arts and all that appertain to the use of life.
So you see, old age is really not so bad. May you come to know the condition!
History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time.
Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.