When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, 'Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.'

A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.

Everything about aging in my experience so far has been a plus. Except the death part!

All knowledge or form conception is evoked through the medium of the eye, either in response to disturbances directly received on the retina or to their fainter secondary effects and reverberations. Other sense organs can only call forth feelings which have no reality of existence and of which no conception can be formed.

Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.