 Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us. |
| A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time. |
| Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel. |
| Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air. |
| Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable. |
| Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good. |
| If I were dying my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end. |
| The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn. |
| One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. |
| To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor. |
| The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius. |
| Old age is fifteen years older than I am. |
| Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking. |
| Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet? |
| Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads. |
| Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out. |
| Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth. |
| Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing. |
| Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them. |
| The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books. |
