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. ~
When in doubt do it.
I hate being placed on committees. They are always having meetings at which half are absent and the rest late.
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.
People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer and attempting a task he cannot achieve.
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...
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.
To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
Old age is fifteen years older than I am.
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
The great thing in this world is not so much where we are but in what direction we are moving.
The Amen of nature is always a flower.
I confess that altruistic and cynically selfish talk seem to me about equally unreal. With all humility I think 'whatsoever thy hand findeth to do do it with thy might ' infinitely more important th...
Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the centre of each and every town or city.