It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies.

Some die too young, some die too old; the precept sounds strange, but die at the right age

She has always been perfectly shameless about reading letters not meant for her, and, as she said, she was ideally suited for the work by never having much inclination to answer letters back.

The fatal law of gravity; when you are down, everything falls down on you.

Inflation is the senility of democracies.

She was heavier than he expected - women always are.