What a new face courage puts on everything. - Ralph Waldo Emerson To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

Every man is an omnibus in which his ancestors ride.

Most of us retain enough of the theological attitude to think that we are little gods.

We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.

But I have long thought that if you knew a column of advertisements by heart, you could achieve unexpected felicities with them. You can get a happy quotation anywhere if you have the eye.

What I wouldn't give to be seventy again!

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