But, of course, everyone grows old." "Not now! People are just discovering how to grow young instead." Lady Anstruthers looked into the clear courage of her laughing eyes.
"Somehow," she said, "you say strange things in such a way that one feels as if they must be true, however--however unlike anything else they are." "They are not as new as they seem," said Betty.

"Ancient philosophers said things like them centuries ago, but people did not believe them.

We are just beginning to drag them out of the dust and furbish them up and pretend they are ours, just as people rub up and adorn themselves with jewels dug out of excavations." "In America people think so many new things," said poor little Lady Anstruthers with yearning humbleness.
"The whole civilised world is thinking what you call new things," said Betty.

"The old ones won't do.

They have been tried, and though they have helped us to the place we have reached, they cannot help us any farther.