Quotes 821 till 833 of 833.
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Be true to your own act and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant to break the monotony of a decorous age.
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Childhood: The period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.
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Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that are written down old with all the characters of age?
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Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age.
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Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
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Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.
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It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance.
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Nothing good bursts forth all at once. The lightning may dart out of a black cloud; but the day sends his bright heralds before him, to prepare the world for his coming.
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Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.
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When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.
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You can get along very well in this world by simply coming up with a quantity of reasonably valid statements.
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