Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.
Francois de La RochefoucauldFuneral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
Francois de La RochefoucauldRepentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld