Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.

Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self-praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others.

Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.