The worst thing about getting old is evil men cease to fear you

We haven't time to spare to hear whether it was between Italy and Sicily that he ran into a storm or somewhere outside the world we know-when every day we're running into our own storms, spiritual storms, and driven by vice into all the troubles that Ulysses ever knew.

He who asks with timidity invites a refusal.

To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none

To things which you bear with impatience you should accustom yourself, and, by habit you will bear them well.

See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.

The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.