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

Thank heavens, the sun has gone in and I don’t have to go out and enjoy it.

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.

What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?

I like to walk down Bond Street, thinking of all the things I don't desire.

The world is not unkind, and reprobates are worse than their reputations.