You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.
In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand
I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.