Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.

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

Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.

Science is the topography of ignorance.

Leverage is everything-don't begin to pry until you've got the long arm on your side.

No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries.

I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.