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Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.

Most persons have died before they expire, — died to all earthly longings, so that the last breath is only, as it were, the locking of the door of the already deserted mansion.

Nobody talks much that doesn't say unwise things, — things he did not mean to say; as no person plays much without striking a false note sometimes.

Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.

Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.

Time, time only, can gradually wean us from our Epeolatry, or word-worship, by spiritualizing our ideas of the thing signified.

We are very shy of asking questions of those who know enough to destroy with one word the hopes we live on.

We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing.

What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!

What a miserable thing it is to be poor.