By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

I've got a book of poetry by the bed, one of these big collections that goes back to the Greeks and Romans.

The sinner will not confess, nor will the priest receive his confession, if the veil of secrecy is removed.

My forces are not enfeebled, I find no decay in my strength; my provisions are not cut off, I find no abhorring in mine appetite; my counsels are not corrupted nor infatuated, I find no false apprehensions to work upon mine understanding; and yet they see that invisibly, and I feel that insensibly, the disease prevails.

Even pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth.

People learn something every day, and a lot of times it's that what they learned the day before was wrong.

The government is shutting down the coal industry, they say it's cheaper to draw nuclear power off the French grid and cheaper to buy coal from Colombia.