Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.
Surely one of the peculiar habits of circumstances is the way they follow, in their eternal recurrence, a single course. If an event happens once in a life, it may be depended upon to repeat later its general design.
That was the worst of being poor, you couldn't give the right things in sickness.
To mourn was distressing, but to endeavor to mourn and fail was worse than distress.
It is human nature to overestimate the thing you've never had.
I never saw the man yet that came out of politics as clean as he went into 'em.