We soon cease to feel the grief at the deaths of our friends, yet we continue to the end of our lives to miss them. They are still with us in their absence.

Do not believe those persons who say they have never been jealous. What they mean is that they have never been in love.

Marriage is an arrangement by which two people start by getting the best out of each other and often end by getting the worst.

Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.

Everyone alters and is altered by everyone else. We are all the time taking in portions of one another or else reacting against them, and by these involuntary acquisitions and repulsions modifying our natures.

Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned.

We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.