Every period of life has its peculiar prejudices; whoever saw old age, that did not applaud the past, and condemn the present times?

I have gathered a posy of other men’s flowers and only the thread that bonds them is my own.

I speak to the paper, as I speak to the first person I meet.

Every period of life has its peculiar prejudices; whoever saw old age, that did not applaud the past, and condemn the present times?

I do not portray the thing in itself. I portray the passage; not a passing from one age to another, or, as the people put it, from seven years to seven years, but from day to day, from minute to minute.

Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape.

I am much afraid that we shall have very greatly hastened the decline and ruin of the New World by our contagion, and that we willhave sold it our opinions and our arts very dear.