The things that we have and that we think are so solid - they're like smoke, and time is like the sky that the smoke disappears into, nothing is left but the sky, and the sky keeps on being just the same forever.

Gossip is never fatal until it is denied.

Mystics always hope that science will some day overtake them.

So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.

There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink

It is love in old age, no longer blind, that is true love. For the love's highest intensity doesn't necessarily mean it's highest quality.

Superciliousness is not safe after all, because a person who forms the habit of wearing it may some day find his lower lip grown permanently projected beyond the upper, so that he can't get it back, and must go through life looking like the King of Spain.