If we do any real good, it is mostly clam, vi, et precario.
Dirt glitters as long as the sun shines.
It is difficult to be just to the passing moment. We are bored by it if it is neither good nor bad; but the good moment lays a task upon us, and the bad moment a burden.
He is the happiest man who can set the end of his life in connection with the beginning.
So obstinately contradictory is man that you cannot compel him to his advantage, yet he yields before everything that forces him to his hurt.