There is nothing to be learned from the second kick of a mule.

I was an arden Hayes man, but that was natural, for I was pretty young at the time, I have since convinced myself that the political opinioins of a nation are of next to no value, in any case, but that what little rag of value they posess is to be found among the old, rather than among the young.

I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.

I know all those people. I have friendly, social, and criminal relations with the whole lot of them.

Don't explain your author, read him right and he explains himself.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

The timid man yearns for full value and demands a tenth. The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on par.