I have drunk of the wine of life at last, I have known the thing best worth knowing, I have been warmed through and through, never to grow quite cold again till the end.

I begin to see what marriage is for. It's to keep people away from each other. Sometimes I think that two people who love each other can be saved from madness only by the things that come between them - children, duties, visits, bores, relations - the things that protect married people from each other.

Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.

We ought to be opening a bottle of wine!

There are two ways to spread happiness; either be the light who shines it or be the mirror who reflects it.

True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.

One of the great things about travel is you find out how many good, kind people there are.