As we grow older we think more and more of old persons and of old things and places. As to old persons, it seems as if we never know how much they have to tell until we are old ourselves and they have been gone twenty or thirty years. Once in a while we come upon some survivor of his or her generation that we have overlooked, and feel as if we had recovered one of the lost books of Livy or fished up the golden candlestick from the ooze of the Tiber.

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

Love prefers twilight to daylight.

Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.

Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.

We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of the superstitious fears which were early implanted in his imagination; no matter how utterly his reason may reject them...

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.