When did Youth ever thank Age for its wisdom?

When two duties jostle each other, one of 'em isn't a duty.

Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.

I'm not to blame for an old body, but I would be to blame for an old soul. An old soul is a shameful thing.

One must desire something to be alive; perhaps absolute satisfaction is only another name for Death.

Every new truth begins in a shocking heresy.

as everybody knows, truthfulness and agreeable manners are often divorced on the ground of incompatibility.