The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.

How can I study from below, that which is above?

Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever

The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.

The old are in a second childhood.

Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.

Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.