In middle age, I practiced feeling old, but the real thing has been a rude surprise.
I feel that I have something significant to say, but I cannot think what it is.
Fortuna smiles and frowns according to a timetable surprising even to herself.
When a man bores a woman, she complains. When a woman bores a man, he ignores her.
Creative memory is the historian's most subtle opponent.
No one can remember himself as an unpleasant child.