Every writer and artist wonders what in the world people of other professions can find to live for.

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

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

Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.

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.

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.