What matter is not to add years to your life but to add life to your years.

Silenceis the mother of truth.

The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get.

As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion oftrust can make trust.

No nation is so poor that it cannot afford to gie free speech

A man without a smiling face must not open a shop.

Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.

Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was tht they escaped teething.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Every man is wanted; and no man is wanted much.

To do what others cannot do is talent. To do what talent cannot do is genius.