Dead, we become the lumber of the world, And to that mass of matter shall be swept Where things destroyed with things unborn are kept.

But it is a pretty thing to see what money will do!

Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.

As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.

It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.

Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness. The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort. To want simply what is enough nowadays suggests to people primitiveness and squalor.

What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.