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

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.

Money and sex are forces too unruly for our reason; they can only be controlled by taboos with which we tamper at our peril.

A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent

I am one of the unpraised, unrewarded millions without whom Statistics would be a bankrupt science. It is we who are born, who marry, who die, in constant ratios.

If you are losing your leisure, look out! You are losing your soul.

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