Trollope Society

Young men are pretty much the same everywhere, I guess. They never have their wits about them. They never mean what they say, because they don't understand the use of words. They are generally half impudent and half timid ... Indeed there is no such thing as a young man, for a man is not really a man till he is middle-aged.

The Duke's Children

The secrets of the world are very marvellous but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world.

Phineas Redux