Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

Many old people receive pensions for no other reason, it seems to me, but as a compensation for having lived a long time ago.

I will come to you, my friend, when I no longer need you. Then you will find a palace, not an almshouse.

There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.

I think the fall from the farmer to the operative as great and memorable as that from the man to the farmer.

The cost of a thing is something called life which is given in exchange for it.

All these sounds, the crowing of cocks, the baying of dogs, and the hum of insects at noon, are the evidence of nature's health orsound state.