Lead the reader toward the thought, then stop a little short.
Youth demands more than ordinary life. Age clings to it.
Wisdom has lost repute because it so often applies to a state of affairs that no longer exists.
Most reputations are not ruined but forgotten.
I can neither return your love nor dismiss it.
I'm being treated like a sex object, cried the lady. No matter. I will take care of it, said Time soothingly.