I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.
When you're finished changing, you're finished.
I have heard that nothing gives an Author so great Pleasure, as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors.
Our whole life is but a greater and longer childhood.
Families ought to be noisy.
Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.