To say a compliment well is a high art and few possess it.
Doesn't make any difference who we are or what we are, there's always somebody to look down on.
It is no use to keep private information which you can't show off.
There are those who would misteach us that to stick in a rut is consistency - and a virtue, and that to climb out of the rut is inconsistency - and a vice.
We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.
I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142.