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.

Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.

The more we feel sorry for ourselves, the less sorry others will feel for us. People don't waste their small store of sympathy on those who can provide it so richly for themselves.

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

It is by sitting down to write every morning that he becomes a writer. Those who do not do this remain amateurs.

The cliché is dead poetry. English, being the language of an imaginative race, abounds in clichés, so that English literature is always in danger of being poisoned by its own secretions.