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

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

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

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

A bad memory is the mother of invention.

It is by sitting down to write every morning that he becomes a writer. Those who do not do this remain amateurs.

The cliche is dead poetry.