I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because occupation means pre-occupation; and the pre-occupied person is neither happy nor unhappy, but simply alive and active. That is why it is necessary to happiness that one should be tired.

First really like is just a little bit foolishness as well as a lot of curiosity. No actually self-respecting girl would reap the benefits of it.

We all go about longing for love: it is the first need of our natures, the loudest cry of our hearts.

People get tired of everything, and of nothing sooner than of what they most like.

The American Constitution, one of the few modern political documents drawn up by men who were forced by the sternest circumstances to think out what they really had to face, instead of chopping logic in a university classroom.

It seems as though every time you learn something new you have to give up something.