Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you'…

Of course, people tell me that I shouldn't gloat. Well, I am gloating.

It's a funny old world.

Certes, c'est un subject merveilleusement vain, divers, et ondoyant, que l'homme. Il est malaise d'y fonder jugement constant et uniforme.

O what fine thought we had because we thought That the worst rogues and rascals had died out.

The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.