Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?
The car skidded to a stop just in front of me, and I jumped back and lost my balance and ended up on the road.
It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.