Those who have money think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know it is money.

We soon cease to feel the grief at the deaths of our friends, yet we continue to the end of our lives to miss them. They are still with us in their absence.

Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned.

You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death.

One of the marks of a great poet is that he creates his own family of words and teaches them to live together in harmony and to help one another.

The only test of work of literature is that it shall please other ages than its own.