"An old man in a house is..." - Quote by Benjamin Franklin

“If you have something to do tomorrow, do it today.”

“All highly competent people continually search for ways to keep learning, growing, and improving. They do that by asking WHY. After all, the person who knows HOW will always have a job, but the person who knows WHY will always be the boss.”

“Never spare the parson's wine nor the baker's pudding”

“Women sit or move to and fro, some old, some young, / The young are beautiful--but the old are more beautiful than the young.”

“From Plato: the man who has an elevated mind and takes a view of all time and of all substance, dost thou suppose it possible for him to think that human life is anything great? It is not possible, he said. Such a man then will think that death also is no evil.”

“The finest manners in the world are awkwardness and fatuity when contrasted with a finer intelligence. They appear but as the fashions of past days,--mere courtliness, knee-buckles and small- clothes, out of date.”

“A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.”

“At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he knows he can't.”

“The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.”