A photograph is a most important document, and there is nothing more damning to go down to posterity than a silly, foolish smile caught and fixed forever.

Men are more compassionate/(nobler)/magnanimous/generous than God; for men forgive their dead, but God does not.

These are the true and only God, mighty and supreme.

Gratitude is a debt which usually goes on accumulating like blackmail; the more you pay, the more is exacted.

After my marriage she edited everything I wrote. And what is more, she not only edited my works, she edited me.

All good things arrive unto them that wait - and don't die in the meantime.

What is human life? The first third a good time; the rest remembering about it.