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.

Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death.

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

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

You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

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

The only test of work of literature is that it shall please other ages than its own.