Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What signifies knowing the names, if you know not the nature of things?

Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.

I had long since taught myself to follow the inner voice. I delighted in submitting to it. To act against it would be difficult and painful to me.

All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.

I kept always two books in my pocket: one to read, one to write in.

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

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

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

Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem, and have the richest fluency, not only in its words, but in the silent lines of its lips and face, and between the lashes of your eyes, and in every motion and joint of your body.

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

The greatest remedy for anger is delay.

An hour of planning can say you 10 hours of doing.

Nothing is more precious than being in the present moment. Fully alive, fully aware.

Life is short. Time is fast. No replay, no rewind. Enjoy every moment as it comes.

They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.