Given two tempers and the time, the ordinary marriage produces anarchy.

No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated.

Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.

It is only in the heart that anything really happens.

Youth is the period of harsh judgments, and a man seldom learns until he reaches thirty that human nature is made up not of simples, but of compounds.

It is difficult to deal successfully, he decided, with a woman whose feelings cannot be hurt.

Borrowed illusions are better than none.