Among fifty percent of your married couples, the husband worries very little about what his wife is doing, provided she is doing all he wishes.

Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.

The best painters, as they progress in reputation and towards perfection, are found to dispense more and more with the technique of the art, for simpler methods. Simplicity never fails to charm.

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.

Necessity is the spur of genius.

It is very difficult to pass from pleasure to work. Accordingly more poems have been swallowed up by sorrow than ever happiness caused to blaze forth in unparalleled radiance.