Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values.

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

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

A bad memory is the mother of invention.

In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape.

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.

Those who have money think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know it is money.