Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it.
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.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.
It is my hope that I can assist you in getting here too.
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.