"Depend upon it, they kept it for him down below." "I hate cynicism!" said Claudia, suddenly and aggressively.
Ayre put up his eyeglass.
"_Apres ?_" "It's all affectation." "Really, Lady Claudia, you might be quite old, from the way you talk.
That is one of the illusions of age, which, by the way, have not received enough attention." "That's very true," said Eugene.

"Old people think the world better than it is because their faculties don't enable them to make such demands upon it." "My dear Eugene," said Mrs.Lane pertinently, "what can you know about it?
As we grow old we grow charitable." "And why is that ?" asked Morewood; "not because you think better of other people, but because you know more of yourself." "That is so," said Ayre.

"Standing midway between youth and age, I am an arbiter.

You judge others by yourself.

In youth you have an unduly good opinion of yourself, that unduly depresses your opinion of others.