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

Every writer and artist wonders what in the world people of other professions can find to live for.

The cliche is dead poetry.

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.

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

One road to happiness is to cultivate curiosity about everything. Not only about people but about subjects, not only about the arts but about history and foreign customs. Not only about countries and cities, but about plants and animals. Not only about lichened rocks and curious markings on the bark of trees, but about stars and atoms. Not only about your friends but about that strange labyrinth we inhabit which we call ourselves. Then, if we do that, we will never suffer a moment's boredom.

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