Systems die; instincts remain.

Young men know the rules, but old men know the exceptions.

In order to know whether a human being is young or old, offer it food of different kinds at short intervals. If young, it will eat anything at any hour of the day or night.

For my part I think it is a less evil that some criminals should escape, than that the government should play an ignoble part.

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.

Fate tried to conceal him by naming him Smith.

Men, like peaches and pears, grow sweet a little while before they begin to decay.