Life, like a child, laughs, shaking its rattle of death as it runs.
to tyrannize for the country is to tyrannize over the country
My day is done, and I am like a boat drawn on the beach, listening to the dance-music of the tide in the evening.
When you have once taken up a responsibility, you must see it through.
I will sit in the pupil of your eyes and that will carry your sight into the heart of the things
Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.