Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife; This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life.

I am more fond of achieving than striving. My theories must prove to be facts or be discarded as worthless. My efforts must soon be crowned with success, or discontinued.

Happiness is the ability to recognize it.

We should live and learn; but by the time we've learned, it's too late to live.

Of two evils, choose the prettier.