There are many things which we can afford to forget which it is yet well to learn.

This is a court of law, not a court of justice.

It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.

What I wouldn't give to be seventy again!

Most people have died before they expire; died to all earthly longings, so that the last breath is only, as it were, the locking of the door of the already deserted mansion.

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

Old age is like an opium dream. Nothing seems real except the unreal.