Age is frequently beautiful, wisdom appearing like an aftermath.
Silence is the mother of truth.
A book may be as great a thing as a battle.
We moralize among ruins.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish.
Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.