The moment that any life, however good, stifles you, you may be sure it isn't your real life.
The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.
The test of a good letter is a very simple one. If one seems to hear the other person talking as one reads, it is a good letter.
Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.
When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.