What I wouldn't give to be seventy again!

To be seventy years young is sometimes for more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.

To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences.