A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.

The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.