Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive, it won't be so hard in the end to lie down and rest.
I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.