A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.

By removing these rays, we extend the life of artifacts, ... If you look at the Declaration of Independence; it's really hard to see the signatures on it -- that's because of the light they used.

No life is so hard that you cannot make it easier by the way you take it.

It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.

The afternoon slipped away while we talked -- she talked brightly when any subject came up that interested her -- and it was the last hour of day -- that grave, still hour when the movement of life seems to droop and falter for a few precious minutes -- that brought us the thing I had dreaded silently since my first night in the house.

Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.