Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

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

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

The weight of this sad time we must obey; speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. The oldest hath borne most: we that are young, shall never see so much, nor live so long.

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

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

Towering in the confidence of twenty-one.

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

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

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.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age.

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

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.

I've learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind.

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.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

My prayer is that when I die, all hell rejoices that I am out of the fight.

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.

Life admits not of delays; when pleasure can be had, it is fit to catch it. Every hour takes away part of the things that please us, and perhaps part of our disposition to be pleased.

There are two ways to get enough: One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.

There are two ways to conquer and enslave a country. One is by the sword. The other is by debt.

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

There is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

Rest not! Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Either you run the day, or the day runs you.