To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
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.
When in doubt do it.
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
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...
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
Old age is fifteen years older than I am.
Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.
If you think that I am going to bother myself again before I die about social improvement or read any of those stinking upward and onwarders - you err - I mean to have some good out of being old.
Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.
People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.
Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
Speak clearly if you speak at all Carve every word before you let it fall.
The great thing in this world is not so much where we are but in what direction we are moving.
Except in cases of necessity which are rare leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies they are ready enough to tell him.
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!
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