Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.
It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.
Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.