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.
Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
The Amen of nature is always a flower.
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.
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!
Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cock-sure of many things that were not so.
Life is a great bundle of little things.
Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
If I had a formula for bypassing trouble I wouldn't pass it around. Wouldn't be doing anybody a favour. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't say embrace trouble. That's as bad as treating...
When the style is fully formed if it has a sweet undersong we call it beautiful and the writer may do what he likes in words or syntax.
Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.
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