Ugly women may be naturally quite as capricious as pretty ones; but as they are never petted and spoiled, and as no allowances are made for them, they soon find themselves obliged either to suppress their whims or to hide them.

The future is a convenient place for dreams.

True education is the ability to discern the difference between what you do know and what you don't.

In truth man is made rather to eat ices than to pore over old texts.

Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.

The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.

Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.