Youth is the time for adventures of the body, but age for the triumphs of the mind.

If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth

The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.

An improper mind is a perpetual feast.

Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you.

All our lives we are putting pennies — our most golden pennies — into penny-in-the-slot machines that are almost always empty.

Uncultivated minds are not full of wild flowers, like uncultivated fields. Villainous weeds grow in them and they are the haunt of toads.