The role of a retired person is no longer to possess one.
A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
When life's problems seem overwhelming, look around and see what other people are coping with. You may consider yourself fortunate.
I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book.
Not seeing is half-believing.
Man has no nobler function than to defend the truth.
It is a tiresome way of speaking, when you should despatch the business, to beat about the bush.
For truth has such a face and such a mien, As to be lov'd needs only to be seen.
It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck, even while waiting for it.
Much learning doth make thee mad.
Humor is the healthy way of feeling "distance" between one's self and the problem, a way of standing off and looking at one's problems with perspective.
My health is good; it's my age that's bad.
A fool or idiot is one who expects things to happen that never can happen.
As lacking in privacy as a goldfish.
The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
Whatever necessity lays upon thee, endure; whatever she commands, do.
None but the brave deserves the fair.
Teach us to pray often, that we may pray oftener.
A day dawns, quite like other days; in it, a single hour comes, quite like other hours; but in that day and in that hour the chance of a lifetime faces us.
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.