I learned more from the first stupid woman who fell in love with me than ever my brains taught me.

After all, the wrong road always leads somewhere.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.

I never climbed any ladder: I have achieved eminence by sheer gravitation.

It is not the number of years we have behind us, but the number we have before us, that makes us careful and responsible and determined to find out the truth about everything.

When your eyes are fixed in the stare of unconsciousness, and your throat coughs the last gasping breath - as one dragged in the dark to a great precipice - what assistance are a wife and child?

When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them.