As for pictures and museums, that don't trouble me. The worst of going abroad is that you've always got to look at things of that sort. To have to do it at home would be beyond a joke.

What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

There is nothing more effectual in showing us the weakness of any habitual fallacy or assumption than to hear it sympathetically through the ears, as it were, of a skeptic.

I think reading a novel is almost next best to having something to do.

I have my own way of dividing people, as I suppose most of us have. There are those whom I can talk to, and those whom I can't.

Married people do stand up so for each other when you say a word, however they may fight between themselves.

The middle of life is the testing-ground of character and strength.