I speak the truth, not my fill of it, but as much as I dare speak; and I dare to do so a little more as I grow old.

Some people die at age 25 and aren't buried until they are 75.

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

He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition, youth and age are equally a burden.

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

Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.

Towering in the confidence of twenty-one.

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.

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.

The day will soon come when I will show the world that the transmission of power and speech without the aid of any wires is possible.

If one but tell a thing well, it moves on with undying voice, and over the fruitful earth and across the sea goes the bright gleam of noble deeds ever unquenchable.

Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in few words

Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burned women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably gracious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Man's tongue is soft, and bone doth lack; yet a stroke therewith may break a man's back.

Listen with ears of tolerance, see through the eyes of compassion, speak with language of love.

He’s a wonderful talker, who has the art of telling you nothing in a great harangue.

The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.

There is but one thing of real value—to cultivate truth and justice, and to live without anger in the midst of lying and unjust men.

The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.

To offend a strong man, tell him a lie. To offend a weak man, tell him the truth.

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.