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

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.

We should all live as if we were never going to die, for it is the deaths of our friends that hurt us, not our own.

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

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

The cliche is dead poetry.