Old age is that night of life as night is the old age of day. Still night is full of magnificence and for many it is more brilliant than the day.

To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.

Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.

We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.

The heart has always the pardoning power.

We are rich only through what we give and poor only through what we refuse.

Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them.

If You Don't Believe the Numbers and Believe in Your Spirit, then You're Ageless.

I'm famous today. People like me today. Might not like me tomorrow. You can't count on it.

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

I have no feelings of guilt regarding the books I have not read and perhaps will never read; I know that my books have unlimited patience. They will wait for me till the end of my days.

Tell the truth as you understand it. If you're a writer, you have a moral obligation to do this. And it is a revolutionary act - truth is always subversive.

Our native language is like a second skin, so much a part of us we resist the idea that it is constantly changing, constantly being renewed.

Haec ego non multis (scribo), sed tibi: satis enim magnum alter alteri theatrum sumus. I am writing this not to many, but to you: certainly we are a great enough audience for each other.

Those who preached faith, or in other words a pure mind, have always produced more popular virtue than those who preached good acts, or the mere regulation of outward works.

I think part of being an adult is leaving the fairytale behind.

Gary Neville is the club captain but has been injured for the best part of a year now - and Giggsy's taken on the mantlepiece.