If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.

One little Indian boy left all alone; He went and hanged himself and then there were none.

At my time of life, one knows that the worst is usually true.

Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master.

People should be interested in books, not their authors.

Women can accept the fact that a man is a rotter, a swindler, a drug taker, a confirmed liar, and a general swine, without batting an eyelash, and without its impairing their affection for the brute in the least. Women are wonderful realists.

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find - at the age of fifty, say - that a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about...It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you.