“It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.”
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Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.
Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature and the error is ineradicable.
We are not the same persons this year as last nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
