Every scene, even the commonest, is wonderful, if only one can detach oneself, casting off all memory of use and custom and behold it, as it were, for the first time.

It is difficult to make a reputation, but is even more difficult seriously to mar a reputation once properly made --- so faithful is the public.

The pleasure of doing a thing in the same way at the same time every day, and savoring it, should be noted.

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

Make love to every woman you meet; if you get five per cent of your outlay it's a good investment.

The man who begins to go to bed forty minutes before he opens his bedroom door is bored; that is to say, he is not living.

The people who live in the past must yield to the people who live in the future. Otherwise the world would begin to turn the other way round.