It is a great bond to dislike the same things.

Wisdom lies in taking everything with good humor and a grain of salt.

Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.

Nothing is so irrevocable as mind.

Plasticity loves new moulds because it can fill them, but for a man of sluggish mind and bad manners there is decidedly no place like home.

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual.

To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.