Poets and painters are outside the class system, or rather they constitute a special class of their own, like the circus people and the Gypsies.

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

Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned.

As Coleridge said, "We receive but what we give." The happy life is a life of continual generosity in which we go out to meet and acclaim the world.

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

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.

The more we feel sorry for ourselves, the less sorry others will feel for us. People don't waste their small store of sympathy on those who can provide it so richly for themselves.