It is a tedious thing to be always beginning life; they live badly who always begin to live.
The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
It should be our care not so much to live a long life as a satisfactory one.
It is remarkable that Providence has given us all things for our advantage near at hand; but iron, gold, and silver, being both the instruments of blood and slaughter and the price of it, nature has hidden in the bowels of the earth.
It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.
You talk one way, you live another.