Weakness is a great bully without knowing it.

... some of the things floating about in the Well of Memory are not worth recording.

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.

Nothing may be more selfish than remorse.

Habit does much to reconcile us to unpleasantness.

we middle-aged folk have the education of life, truly; we know the multiplication table of anxieties and sorrows, the subtraction table of loss, the division table of responsibility.

Nature is perfectly impartial. Brain has no sex!