He is most powerful who governs himself.
There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn't just fall to a person's lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn't go to anyone other than oneself to find her.
Small sorrows speak great ones are silent.
Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.
You are your choices.
There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.