Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long. - William Somerset Maugham

What d'you suppose I care if I'm a gentleman or not? If I were a gentleman I shouldn't waste my time with a vulgar slut like you.

There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity. I recognize that I am made up of several persons and that the person that at the moment has the upper hand will inevitably give place to another. But which is the real one? All of them or none?

Considering how foolishly people act and how pleasantly they prattle, perhaps it would be better for the world if they talked more and did less.