God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
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.