First, cut out all the wisdom, then cut out all the adjectives.

By the time a man notices that he is no longer young, his youth has long since left him.

Life isn't long enough for love and art.

A good Havana is one of the best pleasures that I know.

The nature of men and women - their essential nature - is so vile and despicable that if you were to portray a person as he really is, no one would believe you.

When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch's statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

I thought it was only in revealed religion that a mistranslation improved the sense.