One Can Be A Patriot,

Believe Me; All Evil Comes From The Old. They Grow Fat On Ideas And Young Men Die Of Them.

When You Are Forty, Half Of You Belongs To The Past... And When You Are Seventy, Nearly All Of You.

My Wife Was An Opera Singer, You Know. She Bellowed Her Way Through Wagner As A Valkyrie. I Married Her And Made Her Give Up The Theatre, To My Eternal Cost. She Was To Go On Acting For Myself Alone. A Performance At His Own Expense, Lasting For More Than Twenty Years, Tends To Wear Out Your Spectator.

Life Isn't What You Think It Is. It's Like Water, And The Young Let It Trickle Away Between Their Fingers Without Even Noticing. Cup Your Hands, Keep It Safe. Life Eventually Becomes Something Else, Something Hard, Something Simple, Something You Can Hold In Your Hand And Nibble On Contentedly As You Sit In The Sun.

Life Is Very Nice, But It Lacks Form. It's The Aim Of Art To Give It Some.