Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art. ~Waddington

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

People are always a little disconcerted when you don't recognize them, they are so important to themselves, it is a shock to discover of what small importance they are to others. [The human element]

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.

[Money] is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.

Women's hearts are like old china, none the worse for a break or two.

Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.