You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty.

Taxes are what we pay for civilized society

Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.

The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it.

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.

The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.