“The young man knows the rules but the old man knows the exceptions.”

“Man has his will, but woman has her way.”

“Even a dog knows the difference between being kicked and being stumbled over.”

“If the wild filly, "Progress," thou wouldst ride,Have young companions ever at thy side;But wouldst thou stride the stanch old mare, "Success,"Go with thine elders, though they please thee less.”

“To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad.”

“The man of action has the present, but the thinker controls the future.”

“To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.”