The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.
“The older you get, the better you have to look, the higher you have to kick, the harder you have to work.”
“Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public assembly for the consideration of the most serious, the most exalted topics of human interest is too vitally precious to be lost.”