I protest against any absolute conclusion.

One can begin so many things with a new person! - even begin to be a better man.

Art is the nearest thing to life; it is a mode of amplifying experience and extending our contact with our fellow men beyond the bounds of our personal lot.

Among all the many kinds of first love, that which begins in childish companionship is the strongest and most enduring: when passion comes to unite its force to long affection, love is at its spring-tide.

Having once embarked on your marital voyage, it is impossible not to be aware that you make no way and the sea is not within sight; that in fact, you are exploring an enclosed basin.

Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings.

I take a dose of mathematics every day to prevent my brain from becoming quite soft.