To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
Old age is fifteen years older than I am.
A mind stretched by a new ideanever shrinks back to its original proportions. ~
I hate being placed on committees. They are always having meetings at which half are absent and the rest late.
A man over ninety is a great comfort to all his elderly neighbours: he is a picket-guard at the extreme outpost: and the young folks of sixty and seventy feel that the enemy must get by him before he...
Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.
Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
The Amen of nature is always a flower.
The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms.
Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cock-sure of many things that were not so.
A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!
Life is a great bundle of little things.
The life of the law has not been logic it has been experience.
Law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race.
When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow I look back.
So long as the body is affected through the mind no audacious device even of the most manifestly dishonest character can fail of producing occasional good to those who yield to it an implicit or ev...
A general flavour of mild decay but nothing local as one may say.
Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
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