I think it's a very pretty compensation.

If we can't have youth within us we can have it outside, and I really think we see it and feel it better that way.

Of course we must be in sympathy with it--that I shall always be.

I don't know that I shall ever be ill-natured with old people--I hope not; there are certainly some old people I adore.

But I shall never be anything but abject with the young; they touch me and appeal to me too much.