When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

...mastery of the art and spirit of the Germanic language enables a man to travel all day in one sentence without changing cars.

It is a solemn thought: dead, the noblest man's meat is inferior to pork.

Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

To be vested with enormous authority is a fine thing; but to have the on-looking world consent to it is finer.

It is an important thing, in our never-ending pursuit of happiness, to stop and just be happy for a while.

One gains at least two to three times more experience grabbing the tiger by the tail than reading about it in a book.