How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

Cultures, for better or worse, are very stable.

The day I don't attend to my nostrils is the day I will have forsworn that world and become a different person. Someone otherwise preoccupied. Someone who couldn't care less what anyone thinks of his appearance - someone for whom the material life has lost its appeal.

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.

America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.