People don't know the value of what they have until it is gone: Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.... Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude. Don't wait till freedom is gone before you enjoy, value, support, protect and make the most of it!

Leisure with dignity.

If the soul has food for study and learning, nothing is more delightful than an old age of leisure.

A man would have no pleasures in discovering all the beauties of the universe, even in heaven itself, unless he had a partner to whom he might communicate his joys.

This wine is forty years old. It certainly doesn't show its age.

He who has once deviated from the truth, usually commits perjury with as little scruple as he would tell a lie.

Rashness attends youth, as prudence does old age.