It Is An Immense Loss To Have

I Make It A Rule Always To Believe Compliments Implicitly For Five Minutes, And To Simmer Gently For Twenty More.

It Is So Comic To Hear Oneself Called Old, Even At Ninety I Suppose!

How Fatally The Entire Want Of Humor Cripples The Mind.

If I Can Get On To My Sofa And Occupy Myself For Four Hours, At Intervals Through The Day, Scribbling My Notes, And Able To Read The Books That Belong To Me, In That They Clarify The Density, And Shape The Formless Mass Within, Life Seems Inconceivably Rich.

One Has A Greater Sense Of Degradation After An Interview With A Doctor Than From Any Human Experience.