“The most distinguished persons become more revolutionary as they grow older.”
“The older a person grows, Harriet, the more important it is that their manners should not be bad,—the more glaring and disgusting any loudness, or coarseness, or awkwardness becomes. What is passable in youth is detestable in later age.”
“In growing older, we become our parents.”
“The older I grow the more I become certain that it makes no difference what words we use to tell the same truths.”
“The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.”
“The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.”