Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death.

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.

Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values.

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

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

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

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