The facts, even the real ones, must be imagined before they can be stated.

At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.

silence is the most intolerable of answers.

A quiet fool can go undiscovered for a long time.

I feel affluent or not according to what part of town I am in.

As a dream comes true, it falls flat.

Well-behaved: he always speaks as if his mother might be listening.