“The youth of the present day are quite monstrous. They have absolutely no respect for dyed hair.”

“It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.”

“To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.”

“If I could get back my youth, I'd do anything in the world except get up early, take exercise or be respectable.”

“The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.”

“I wish you would tell me your secret. To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.”

“Youth is the only thing worth having.”