Self-respecting people do not care to peep at their reflections in unexpected mirrors, or to see themselves as others see them.

He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave

The emergence of a new term to describe a certain phenomenon, of a new adjective to designate a certain quality, is always of interest, both linguistically and from the point of view of the history of human thought.

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

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

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

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.