Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.

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

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient.

Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.

A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.

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