Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.

There is no diplomacy like candor.

The trouble with marriage is that, while every woman is at heart a mother, every man is at heart a bachelor.

I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.

Few women and fewer men have enough character to be idle.

The truth is the only thing worth having, and, in a civilized life, like ours, where so many risks are removed, facing it is almost the only courageous thing left to do.

What kind of life a dog . . . acquires. I have sometimes tried to imagine by kneeling or lying full length on the ground and looking up. The world then becomes strangely incomplete; one sees little but legs.