The hat is the ultimum moriens of respectability.
The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table. viii.
To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
On the Seventieth Birthday of Julia Ward Howe (May 27, 1889).
Footnotes
[637:1] John Lothrop Motley.
Said Scopas of Thessaly, "We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things."—Plutarch: On the Love of Wealth.
[638:1] Thomas G. Appleton.