Words are as recalcitrant as circus animals, and the unskilled trainer can crack his whip at them in vain.

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

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

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

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.

Words are as recalcitrant as circus animals, and the unskilled trainer can crack his whip at them in vain.

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