It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

Youth longs and manhood strives, but age remembers.

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.

To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad.