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.
Memoirs are the backstairs of history.
The well of true wit is truth itself.
Speech is the small change of silence.
Ah what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life!
Published memoirs indicate the end of a man's activity and that he acknowledges the end.
Caricature is rough truth.
A witty woman is a treasure a witty beauty is a power.
Kissing don't last: cookery do !
Memoirs: the backstairs of history.
We are betrayed by what is false within.
There is nothing the body suffers which the soul may not profit by.
The man of science is nothing if not a poet gone wrong.
She heard the snuffle of hypocrisy in her prayer. She had to cease to pray.
Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.
Cynicism is intellectual dandyism without the coxcomb's feathers.
Who rises from prayer a better man his prayer is answered.
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.