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

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

We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them.

When I write a page that reads badly I know that it is myself who has written it. When it reads well it has come through from somewhere else.

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

We should all live as if we were never going to die, for it is the deaths of our friends that hurt us, not our own.

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.