“To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
“It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
“An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't
“The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.
“The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom...for we never know what is enough until we know what is more than enough
“Everything has been said, and we have come too late, now that men have been living and thinking for seven thousand years and more