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

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

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

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

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.

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

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