Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.
It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.
Pedigree and ancestry and what we ourselves have not achieved, I scarcely recognize as our own.
Work while your strength and years permit you; crooked age will by-and-by come upon you with silent foot.
The mightiest rivers lose their force when split up into several streams.
There is a good deal in a man's mode of eating.