The worst thing about getting old is evil men cease to fear you

Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.

Our life's a moment and less than a moment, but even this mite nature has mockingly humored with some appearance of a longer span.

Obedience is yielded more readily to one who commands gently.

He invites the commission of a crime who does not forbid it, when it is in his power to do so.

All that lies betwixt the cradle and the grave is uncertain.

The physician cannot prescribe by letter, he must feel the pulse.