moral vanity is the snare of good people.

... if a man really and truly believed that black was white, you might advise him to see an oculist, but you mustn't call him a liar.

silence is very moving to youth, for who knows what it hides?

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

Home is the best place to be sick in.

Age, per se, may claim tenderness and pity, but not respect; that only comes when the years have brought humanity and wisdom and the experience that worketh hope.

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.