A man must get a thing before he can forget it

We can forgive a man the defects of his qualities, if only he has the qualities of his defects

If a man is in a minority of one, we lock him up

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

A man over ninety is a great comfort to all his elderly neighbors: he is a picket-guard at the extreme outpost; and the young folks of sixty and seventy feel that the enemy must get by him before he can come near their camp.

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