Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavour to understand him.
Existence is a miracle, and, morally considered, a free gift from moment to moment.
Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.
The unforgivable sin is the refusal to pardon.
Habit is stronger than reason.
A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past, according to his interest in the present.