There are compensations for growing older. One is the realization that to be sporting isn't at all necessary. It is a great relief to reach this stage of wisdom.

It is disturbing to discover in oneself these curious revelations of the validity of the Darwinian theory. If it is true that we have sprung from the ape, there are occasions when my own spring appears not to have been very far.

Tragedy can break the heart but not the dam of the tearducts while schmaltz can dissolve the most hardened sophisticate.

All I have learned about horses is that they are beautiful overrated creatures and are all born quite insane.

Women's virtue is man's greatest invention.

Women keep a special corner of their hearts for sins they have never committed.

We all have our little illusions about our own mental abilities.