If you ever have need of my life, come and take it.
It's very hard, feeling that you're no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.
Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning.
It is always "Youth, youth," when there is nothing else to be said.
And only now, when he was gray-haired, had he fallen in love properly, thoroughly, for the first time in his life.
In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way round: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar.