*Absence is hard on any relationship; if you don’t miss someone when they are gone, you don’t really love them when they are near.

*Don’t waste time being excessively proud of your ancestors. If they did well, spend your effort trying to not do worse than they did!

Quotable:

False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.

Bovee 1820-1904