It takes some little time to accept and realize the fact that while you have been growing old, your friends have not been standing still, in that matter.

I was born with Halley's Comet and I expect to die upon its return

How slow and still the time did drag along.

Learning softeneth the heart and breedeth gentleness and charity.

No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot

In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.

Astonishing things can be done with the human memory if you will devote it faithfully to one particular line of business.