I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more.
How fatally the entire want of humor cripples the mind.
It is so comic to hear oneself called old, even at ninety I suppose!
Ah! Those strange people who have the courage to be unhappy! Are they unhappy, by the way?
Truly nothing is to be expected except for the unexpected.
Who would ever give up the reality of dreams for relative knowledge?