To Have To Die Is A Distinction

The Sea Complains Upon A Thousand Shores.

To Be Occasionally Quoted Is The Only Fame I Care For.

The Great Man Is The Man Who Does A Thing For The First Time.

The Discovery Of A Grey Hair When You Are Brushing Out Your Whiskers Of A Morning—first Fallen Flake Of The Coming Snows Of Age—is A Disagreeable Thing.... So Are Flying Twinges Of Gout, Shortness Of Breath On The Hill-side, The Fact That Even The Moderate Use Of Your Friend's Wines At Dinner Upsets You. These Things Are Disagreeable Because They Tell You That You Are No Longer Young—that You Have Passed Through Youth, Are Now In Middle Age, And Faring Onward To The Shadows In Which, Somewhere, A Grave Is Hid.

In The Entire Circle Of The Year There Are No Days So Delightful As Those Of A Fine October.