What we gain by experience is not worth that we lose in illusion
In a better world we will find our young years and our old friends.
Let us respect gray Lairs, but, above all, our own.
None despise fame more heartily than those who have no possible claim to it.
We find ourselves less witty in remembering what we have said than in dreaming of what we would have said.
Another life, if it were not better than this, would be less a promise than a threat.