I'm too old to know everything

I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real.

To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

Well I won't argue about the matter. You always want to argue about things.
That is exactly what things were originally made for.

Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.

People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately.