"What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories."
"Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth."
"It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it."
"Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long."
"It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive."
"Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species."
"Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul."
