Don't just count your years, make your years count.
Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl.
Chance works for us when we are good captains.
Published memoirs indicate the end of a man's activity and that he acknowledges the end.
Ah what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life!
Caricature is rough truth.
Memoirs are the backstairs of history.
The well of true wit is truth itself.
Speech is the small change of silence.
Kissing don't last: cookery do !
A witty woman is a treasure a witty beauty is a power.
We are betrayed by what is false within.
Memoirs: the backstairs of history.
There is nothing the body suffers which the soul may not profit by.
She heard the snuffle of hypocrisy in her prayer. She had to cease to pray.
Who rises from prayer a better man his prayer is answered.
Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.
Prayer for worldly goods is worse than fruitless but prayer for strength of soul is that passion of the soul which catches the gift it seeks.
Cynicism is intellectual dandyism without the coxcomb's feathers.
The man of science is nothing if not a poet gone wrong.