Don't tell friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you.

Growing old is not a gradual decline, but a series of drops, full of sorrow, from one ledge to another below it.

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

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

One can be bored until boredom becomes a mystical experience.

I find a fascination, like the fascination for the moth of a star, in those who hold aloof and disdain me.

Uncultivated minds are not full of wild flowers, like uncultivated fields. Villainous weeds grow in them and they are the haunt of toads.