If they lost the incredible conviction that they can change their wives or husbands, marriage would collapse at once.

What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?

What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?

When elderly invalids meet with fellow-victims of their own ailments, then at last real conversation begins, and life is delicious.

There are people who, like houses, are beautiful in dilapidation.

The truth is that the phenomena of artistic production are still so obscure, so baffling, we are still so far from an accurate scientific and psychological knowledge of their genesis or meaning, that we are forced to accept them as empirical facts; and empirical and non-explanatory names are the names that suit them best.

I like to walk down Bond Street, thinking of all the things I don't desire.