Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.
The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood until the time comes for them to depart this life again like children neither tired of living nor aware of death.
Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.
Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.