How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true!

How often my soul visits the National Gallery, and how seldom

There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

Growing old is not a gradual decline, but a series of drops, full of sorrow, from one ledge to another below it.

Self-respecting people do not care to peep at their reflections in unexpected mirrors, or to see themselves as others see them.

There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.

The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.