Jim said that bees won't sting idiots, but I didn't believe that, because I tried them lots of times myself and they wouldn't sting me.

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. To live a fulfilled life, we need to keep creating the "what is next", of our lives. Without dreams and goals there is no living, only merely existing, and that is not why we are here.

My faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened.

You cant reach old age by another man's road, my habits protect my life but they would assassinate you

I find that the further I go back, the better things were, whether they happened or not.

Nothing is so ignorant as a man's left hand, except a lady's watch.

I was born lazy. I am no lazier now than I was forty years ago, but that is because I reached the limit forty years ago. You can't go beyond possibility.