The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.

It is a matter of life and death for married people to interrupt each others stories; for it they did not, they would burst.

Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world will let them.

Youth is the time for adventures of the body, but age for the triumphs of the mind.

Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income.

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

One can be bored until boredom becomes a mystical experience.