Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.
In our changing world nothing changes more than geography.
The older a people grows, the more it absorbs its own landscape and builds to it.
It is better to be first with an ugly woman than the hundreth with a beauty.
If I have learned anything in my long life it is to be grateful for every occasion when I followed my sympathies and avoided my antipathies.
We must have hope or starve to death.