Difficulties increase the nearer we come to our aim.
Sowing is not so painful as reaping.
We are fond of looking to the future, because our secret wishes make us apt to turn in our favour the uncertainties which move about in it hither and thither.
It is not easy to be in any great assembly without thinking that the chance which brings so many people together will also make us meet our friends.
A man may live never so retired a life but he becomes a debtor or a creditor before he is aware of it.