Creative work is one of life's greatest pleasures, and the only one we will gladly interrupt.
Those who are brutally honest are seldom so with themselves.
The excesses of love soon pass, but its insufficiencies torment us forever.
The marriage of convenience has this to recommend it: we are better judges of convenience than we are of love.
Women who feel naked without their lipstick are well over thirty.
We are seldom happy with what we now have, but would go to pieces if we lost any part of it.