The easiest thing for our friends to discover in us, and the hardest thing for us to discover in ourselves, is that we are growing old.
To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.
Early genius, like early cabbage, does not head well.
Human happiness konsists in having what yu want, and wanting what yu have.
Despatch is taking time by the ears; hurry is taking it by the end of the tail.
It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.