A stick is straightened while still young.

The wiser mind mourns less for what age takes away than what it leaves behind.

We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing.

Old age isn’t so bad when you consider the alternative.

Vigor is found in the man who has not yet grown old, and discretion in the man who is not too young.

Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

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

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

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

Towering in the confidence of twenty-one.

I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.

Sow a thought, and you reap an act; Sow an act, and you reap a habit; Sow a habit, and you reap character; Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.

The liar is no better than the thief, and if his mendacity takes the form of slander he may be worse than most thieves. It puts a premium upon knavery untruthfully to attack an honest man, or even with hysterical exaggeration to assail a bad man with untruth.

People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I've learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one's reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one's master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person's view requires to be faked.

The best index to a person’s character is how he treats people who can’t do him any good, and how he treats people who can’t fight back.

He whose honor depends on the opinion of the mob must day by day strive with the greatest anxiety, act and scheme in order to retain his reputation. For the mob is varied and inconsistent, and therefore if a reputation is not carefully preserved it dies quickly.

The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.

The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.

An organizations ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.