You don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her.

As a rule the person found out in a betrayal of love holds, all the same, the superior position of the two. It is the betrayed one who is humiliated.

Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.

It's always something to get one's wish, even if the wish is a failure.

Everything comes to the man who won't wait.

an optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet.

There is, of course, no joy so great as the cessation of pain; in fact all joy, active or passive, is the cessation of some pain, since it must be the satisfaction of a longing, even perhaps an unconscious longing.