“When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age”
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“When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age”
“Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been”
“experience is the only prophecy of wise men”
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it”
“There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country”
“Every thing possible to be believed is an image of truth”
“The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised”
“What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment”
“One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant”
“We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves”
“The visible mark of extraordinary wisdom and power appear so plainly in all the works of creation”