He who blushes at riding in a rattletrap, will boast when he rides in style.
An old man at school is a contemptible and ridiculous object.
The important thing about a problem is not its solution, but the strength we gain in finding the solution
It's unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.
A great mind becomes a great fortune.
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.