The gentleman prefers to be slow in word but diligent in action.
Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.
Growing old is not a gradual decline, but a series of drops, full of sorrow, from one ledge to another below it.
When elderly invalids meet with fellow-victims of their own ailments, then at last real conversation begins, and life is delicious.
The great art of writing is the art of making people real to themselves with words.
What things there are to write, if one could only write them! My mind is full of gleaming thought; gay moods and mysterious, moth-like meditations hover in my imagination, fanning their painted wings. But always the rarest, those streaked with azure and the deepest crimson, flutter away beyond my reach.
Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you.
I've always been battling against my sense of dignity and refinement. I was embarrassed by any bodily functions when I was younger. I could never even blow my nose.
You do know how to play pinochle?" Mr. D eyed me suspiciously. "I'm afraid not," I said. "I'm afraid not, sir," he said. "Well," he told me, "it is, along with gladiator fighting and Pac-Man, one of the greatest games ever invented by humans. I would expect all civilized young men to know the rules.
The United States will do what we must to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.
Ah, well, being conflicted means you can live a shallow life without copping to be a shallow person.