The test of enjoyment is the remembrance which it leaves behind.

The world is not unkind, and reprobates are worse than their reputations.

The old know what they want; the young are sad and bewildered.

We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stutter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.

When we say we are certain so-and-so can't possibly have done it, what we mean is that we think he very likely did.

How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?

So, I never lose a sense of the whimsical and perilous charm of daily life, with its meetings and words and accidents.