There is such a thing as anaesthesia of pain, engendered by pain too exquisite to be borne.
Affluence means influence.
If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
To be able to forget means sanity.
A human life the treasure of the world cannot buy; nor can it redeem one which is misspent; nor can it make full and complete and beautiful a life which is dwarfed and warped and ugly.