At my time of life opinions are tolerably fixed. It is not likely that I should now see or hear anything to change them.
What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!
Where a man does his best with only moderate powers, he will have the advantage over negligent superiority.
What praise is more valuable than the praise of an intelligent servant?
…but then I am unlike other people I dare say.
One likes to hear what is to be going on, to be au fair with the newest modes of being trifling and silly.