Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.
Nor am I ashamed, as some are, to confess my ignorance of those matters with which I am unacquainted.
So it may well be believed that when I found him taking a complete holiday, with a vast supply of books at command, he had the air of indulging in a literary debauch, if the term may be applied to so honorable an occupation.
This wine is forty years old. It certainly doesn't show its age.
Time is the herald of truth.
Never was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors and thieves.