A bad memory is the mother of invention.

Those who have money think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know it is money.

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

Everyone alters and is altered by everyone else. We are all the time taking in portions of one another or else reacting against them, and by these involuntary acquisitions and repulsions modifying our natures.

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

The cliche is dead poetry.

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