I had been there before; I knew all about it.

Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.

There's only one great evil in the world today. Despair.

...she had regained what I thought she had lost forever, the magical sadness which had drawn me to her, the thwarted look that had seemed to say, "Surely I was made for some other purpose than this?

The only thing that it is advisable to know in any language is the numerals; and even there, you can do a lot with the fingers.

If a thing's worth doing at all, it's worth doing well.

Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of the scholar and the philosopher