That is why most great love stories are tragedies.

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.

There are questions that you don't ask because you're afraid of the answers to them.

When you find that people are not telling you the truth---look out!

I have often had occasion to notice how, where a direct question would fail to elicit a response, a false assumption brings instant information in the form of a contradiction.

how tedious is retirement! You cannot imagine to yourself the monotony with which day comes after day.

To put it quite crudely ... the poor don't really know how the rich live, and the rich don't know how the poor live, and to find out is really enchanting to both of them.