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

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.

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

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

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

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.

As Coleridge said, "We receive but what we give." The happy life is a life of continual generosity in which we go out to meet and acclaim the world.