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.

It is seldom that the miserable can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.

Some people are born to make life pretty, and others to grumble that it is not pretty enough.

The worst service, I fancy, that anyone can do for truth, is to set silly people writing on its behalf.

I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music.

I would rather not be engaged. When people are engaged, they begin to think of being married soon, and I should like everything to go on for a long while just as it is.

The poverty of our imagination is no measure of say the world's resources. Our posterity will no doubt get fuel in ways that we are unable to devise for them.