All mirrors are magical mirrors, and we never see our faces in them.

Don't laugh at youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.

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

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

How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares if there seemed any danger of their coming true!

All our lives we are putting pennies — our most golden pennies — into penny-in-the-slot machines that are almost always empty.

Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.