Remember, the pudding proves itself only when you eat it.
To all those who lead monotonous lives in the hope that they may experience at second-hand the delights and dangers of adventure.
Those who talk most about blood have never actually seen it run.
The old ones they laugh last sometimes, when the young, clever ones do not laugh at all.
Sometimes one sees things more clearly years afterwards than one could possibly at the time.
Nothing is more dangerous than the well-meant efforts of the younger generation to assist you and show their sympathy.
Intuition is like reading a word without having to spell it out. A child can’t do that because it has had so little experience. But a grown-up person knows the word because they’ve seen it often before.
At my time of life, one knows that the worst is usually true.