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

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

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

A man must get a thing before he can forget it

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.