The companion of an evening, and the companion for life, require very different qualifications.

All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views.

The life of a good man is a continual warfare with his passions.

To us, who are regaled every morning and evening with intelligence, and are supplied from day to day with materials for conversation, it is difficult to conceive how man can consist without a newspaper, or to what entertainment companies can assemble

The evening of a well-spent life brings its lamps with it.

[The show is billed as] An Evening of Classic Lily Tomlin. ... The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe.