Small successes are still successes; great failures are still failures.

Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder.

Once wealth and beauty are gone, there is always rural life.

We take refuge in illness and then are trapped there.

Without civilization, we would not turn into animals, but vegetables.

Imprudence relies on luck, prudence on method. That gives prudence less edge than it expects.

A modest demeanor arouses thoughts of seduction.