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.

Youth is the time for adventures of the body, but age for the triumphs of the mind.

I might give my life for my friend, but he had better not ask me to do up a parcel.

It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

When elderly invalids meet with fellow-victims of their own ailments, then at last real conversation begins, and life is delicious.

The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.