Ah well, perhaps one has to be very old before one learns how to be amused rather than shocked.

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.

The boundary between civilization and barbarism is difficult to draw: put one ring in your nose and you are a savage, put two rings in your ears and you are civilized.

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.