"Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch."
"There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age, I missed it coming and going."
"The greatest writers of this age... are aware of the mystery of our existence."
"We pay when old for the excesses of youth."
