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.
Grief is the price Love pays for being in the same world with Death.
When did Youth ever thank Age for its wisdom?
Home is the best place to be sick in.
A letter is a risky thing; the writer gambles on the reader's frame of mind.
Books are like sapphires; they must be polished - polished! or else you insult your readers.