Children are certainly too good to be true.
Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
Give us courage and gaiety and the quient mind . . .
I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.
Everyone who got where he is has had to begin where he was.
We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.