As One Grows Older, One Becomes Wiser

However Great The Advantages Given Us By Nature, It Is Not She Alone, But Fortune With Her, Which Makes Heroes.

Passion Very Often Makes The Wisest Men Fools, And Very Often Too Inspires The Greatest Fools With Wit.

There Is An Excess Both In Happiness And Misery Above Our Power Of Sensation.

We Own Up To Minor Failings, But Only So As To Convince Others That We Have No Major Ones.

I Always Say To Myself, What Is The Most Important Thing We Can Think About At This Extraordinary Moment.