The young people think the old people are fools; but the old people know the young people are fools!
One generation to change the text. One generation chooses to teach that text. The next grows, and the lie becomes history.
Nothing is more dangerous than the well-meant efforts of the younger generation to assist you and show their sympathy.
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
Every generation had its weaklings – that that was one of the penalties of greatness – but that their failings were seldom remembered by posterity.
