Old age diminishes our strength; it takes away our pleasures one after the other; it withers the soul as well as the body; it renders adventure and f… - André Maurois

He who has found a good wife has found great happiness, but a quarrelsome woman is like a roof that lets in the rain.

There is no absurdity or contradiction to which passion may not lead a man. When love or hate takes control, reason must submit and then discover justifications for their folly.

In every young government strength is worth more than ancestral wisdom, but no government can remain young. As it grows older there is more respect for mature men than for old men. The leader who has build his career upon a basis of youth, loses youth. Like the old wolf, he tries to hide his disgrace; he keeps himself fit and affects the fearlessness and excess of a young man; but sooner or later time will make him a senator, then a corpse.