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.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.