The great thing in life is not to be able to do things, because then they are always done for you.

it is rather depressing to think that one will still be oneself when one is dead, but I dare say one won't be so critical then.

If only life were one long crisis, everyone would be perfect.

Never economize on luxuries.

There are few pleasures like really burrowing one's nose into sweet peas.

The great thing in life is not to be able to do things, because then they are always done for you.

It has been noticed that people who are not parents often have a peculiar fondness for children. This is sometimes attributed to a very beautiful nostalgia for a gift denied to them - dream-children, flowers that have only bloomed in imagination - but we think it is rather because they have not the faintest idea how dreadful children are.