Age is honorable and youth is noble.

I remember my youth and the feeling that I could last forever, outlast the sea, the earth and all men.

These are the arks, the trophies, I erect, That fortify thy name against old age.

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth.

I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.

Age is not better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost.

Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth.

Let me give you a tip on a clue to men’s characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.

There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.

Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.

To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

Those are most desirous of honor and glory who cry out the loudest of its abuse and the vanity of the world.

The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion.

No thing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

Follow your desire as long as you live and do not perform more than ordered; do not lessen the time following desire, for the wasting of time is an abomination to the spirit.

Never put off till tomorrow the fun you can have today.