People always fancy that we must become old to become wise; but, in truth, as years advance, it is hard to keep ourselves as wise as we were.

Man would not be the finest creature in the world if he were not too fine for it.

Children, like dogs, have so sharp and fine a scent that they detect and hunt out everything--the bad before all the rest. They also know well enough how this or that friend stands with their parents; and as they practice no dissimulation whatever, they serve as excellent barometers by which to observe the degree of favor or disfavor at which we stand with their parents.

Yet here I stand poor fool what more, not one wit wiser than before.

What you have inherited from your forefathers, it takes work to make it your own.

Time does not relinquish its rights, either over human beings or over mountains.

People always fancy that we must become old to become wise; but, in truth, as years advance, it is hard to keep ourselves as wise as we were.