No generalization is wholly true—not even this one.

What I wouldn't give to be seventy again!

Leisure only means a chance to do other jobs that demand attention.

The riders in a race do not stop when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voices of friends and say to oneself, The work is done.

The wind blows out, the bubble dies; The spring entomb'd in autumn lies; The dew dries up; the star is shot; The flight is past, and man forgot.

To an imagination of any scope the most far reaching form of power is not money, it is the command of ideas

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