Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.
They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.