Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.
I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true.
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
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.
The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
A man can do all things if he but wills them.