Reading is to the mind what exercising is to the body.

Our first experience of life is primarily felt in the *body.* ... We know ourselves in the security of those who hold us and gaze upon us. It's not heard or seen or thought it's felt. That's the original knowing.

They that live in a trading street are not disturbed at the passage of carts

That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart

Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth

I know of no manner of speaking so offensive as that of giving praise, and closing it with an exception