I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started
It is no harm to be an ass, if one is content to bray and not kick.
By law of periodical repetition, everything which has happened once must happen again and again -- and not capriciously, but at regular periods, and each thing in its own period, not another's and each obeying its own law.
Like most people, I often feel mean, and act accordingly.
[On Dutch flat poetry]: It is too smooth and blubbery; it reads like butter-milk gurgling from a jug.