"Youth is a continual intoxication; it is..." - Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“We are always bored by the very people by whom it is vital not to be bored.”

“Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.”

“We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.”

“It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.”

“Gotta start teaching the children that they can be just what they want to be, there's much more to life than poverty.”

“Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.”

“I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.”

“Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead.”

“What is it that strikes a spark of humor from a man? It is the effort to throw off, to fight back the burden of grief that is laid on each one of us. In youth we don't feel it, but as we grow to manhood we find the burden on our shoulders. Humor? It is nature's effort to harmonize conditions. The further the pendulum swings out over woe the further it is bound to swing back over mirth.”