The first forty years of life furnish the text, while the remaining thirty supply the commentary. Counsels and Maxims

Consider nothing impossible, then treat possiblities as probabilities. David Copperfield

Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality. Lady Windermere's Fan

For after death, as they say, the genius of each individual, to whom he belonged in life, leads him to a certain place in which the dead are gathered together for judgment, whence they go into the world below, following the guide who is appointed to conduct them from this world to the other; and when they have there received their due and remained their time, another guide brings them back again after many revolutions of ages. The Trials Of Socrates