What's the use of making mysteries? It only makes people want to nose 'em out.

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.

Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.

One cares so little for the style in which one's praises are written.

There's nothing grimmer than the tragedy that wears a comic mask.

There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul.

...every literature, in its main lines, reflects the chief characteristics of the people for whom, and about whom, it is written.