Only those who get into scrapes with their eyes open can find the safe way out.

To become young again would seem to me an appalling prospect. Youth is a kind of delirium, which can be cured, if it is ever cured at all, by years of painful treatment.

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.

There are people who, like houses, are beautiful in dilapidation.

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

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.

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