Old age is a disease from which there is no recovery but the old nun's recent attack had certainly been brought on chiefly by the fatigue of so much travelling.

People who do not get into scrapes are a great deal less interesting than those who do.

In few people is discretion stronger than the desire to tell a good story.

It is useless to talk with those who do not understand one and troublesome to talk with those who criticize from a feeling of superiority. Especially one-sided persons are troublesome. Few are accomplished in many arts and most cling narrowly to their own opinion.

A night of endless dreams, inconsequent and wild, is this my life; none more worth telling than the rest.

Though the body moves, the soul may stay behind.

farewell' is a monster among words, and never yet sounded kindly in any ear.