I knew a man who had been virtually drowned and then revived. He said that his death had not been painful.
We can talk frankly about our defects only to those who recognise our qualities.
A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
All of us, from time to time, need a plunge into freedom and novelty, after which routine and discipline will seem delightful by contrast.
Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more humane world.
Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by.