It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.

A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.

Because her instinct has told her, or because she has been reliably informed, the faded virgin knows that the supreme joys are not for her; she knows by a process of the intellect; but she can feel her deprivation no more than the young mother can feel the hardship of the virgin's lot.

A true friend is one who likes you despite your achievements.

During a long and varied career as a bachelor, dear spouse [mock platform manner], I have noticed that marriage is usually the death of politeness between a man and a woman.

I will never cease advising my friends and enemies to read poetry before anything.

A sense of the value of time... is an essential preliminary to efficient work; it is the only method of avoiding hurry.