All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.

In the past few years, I have made a thrilling discovery ... that until one is over sixty, one can never really learn the secret of living. One can then begin to live, not simply with the intense part of oneself, but with one's entire being.

In her abhorrrence of a vacuum, Nature, for the furtherance of her favorite hobby, has often to resort to strange devices. If she could but understand that vacuity is sometimes better than superfluity!

Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.

One cannot lay a foundation by scattering stones, nor is a reputation for good work to be got by strewing volumes about the world.

The government's like a mule, it's slow and it's sure; it's slow to turn, and it's sure to turn the way you don't want it.

convictions ... are always getting in the way of opportunities.