“Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order”
“Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order”
“No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam”
“One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them”
“He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose”
“We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.”
“To read means to borrow; to create out of one's readings is paying off one's debts”
“He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides”