Courage doesn't know what's around the corner, but goes around it anyway.
Learn a little of anything, and you're ready to proselytize.
Spiritual sloth, or acedia, was known as The Sin of the Middle Ages. It's the sin of my middle age, too.
Every creature stalks some other, catches it, and is caught.
Pity all newlyweds. She cooks something nice for him, and he brings her flowers, and they kiss and think: How easy marriage is.
The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.