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

We are not the same persons this year as last ; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

I have been forced to conclude from this that we know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.

Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.