Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.

Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you.

We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be.

To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few.

Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said.

A married couple are well suited when both partners usually feel the need for a quarrel at the same time.

Already at the origin of the species man was equal to what he was destined to become.