What is a hero without love for mankind. In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools. Bed is the best place for reading, thinking, or doing nothing. That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.
Literature is analysis after the event.
The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion. It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.