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?

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

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

How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!

You cannot be both fashionable and first-rate

What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?

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