Mystics always hope that science will some day overtake them.

Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Whatever does not pretend at all has style enough.

It is love in old age, no longer blind, that is true love. For the love's highest intensity doesn't necessarily mean it's highest quality.

Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living through them is like waiting for the millennium.

The understanding smile of an old wife to her husband is one of the loveliest things in the world.

So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.