What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories. - William Somerset Maugham

We can none of us step into the same river twice, but the river flows on and the other river we step into is cool and refreshing, too

Perhaps her faults and follies, the unhappiness she had suffered, were not entirely vain if she could follow the path that now she dimly discerned before her, not the path that kind funny old Waddington had spoken of that led nowhither, but the path those dear nuns at the convent followed so humbly, the path that led to peace.

Man's desire for the approval of his fellows is so strong, his dread of their censure so violent, that he himself has brought his enemy (conscience) within his gates; and it keeps watch over him, vigilant always in the interests of its master to crush any half-formed desire to break away from the herd.