Most mothers kiss and scold together.

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

It is better to be first with an ugly woman than the hundreth with a beauty.

Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.

To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.

The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive.