Do not fear the ones who argue, but rather those who are evasive.

Origins are of the greatest importance. We are almost reconciled to having a cold when we remember where we caught it.

You stay young as long as you can learn, acquire new habits, and suffer contradictions.

We are valued wither too highly or not high enough; we are never taken at our real worth.

Nothing is so often and so irrevocably missed as the opportunity which crops up daily.

You can sink so fast that you think you are flying.

Old age transfigures or fossilizes.