The horse's best allowance is his master's eye.

Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.

Maybe it is something to do with age, but I have become fonder of poetry than of prose.

Older fatherhood isn't all bad: testosterone rates drop about 1% per year as men age, making them less reactive and more patient, and a professionally established middle-aged man is likely to have more time and money to devote to his kids than a twenty-something who's just getting started.

We Jews have a special attachment to the Book. The study of page after page in tomes yellowing with age was obligatory.