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

One of the marks of a great poet is that he creates his own family of words and teaches them to live together in harmony and to help one another.

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

A bad memory is the mother of invention.

We soon cease to feel the grief at the deaths of our friends, yet we continue to the end of our lives to miss them. They are still with us in their absence.

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

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