It seems to take a lifetime for us to learn that wisdom consists largely in a graceful acceptance of things that do not immediately concern us.

Three things I have longed to see ... The sea serpent, a white rhinoceros, and an unselfish man.

Content is a matter of temperament rather than circumstance.

It saves trouble to be conventional, for you're not always explaining things.

When we come to the sundown road, we need all the love we have managed to take with us from the summit of the hill.

Before, you think of it as a permanent bond of happiness; later, you see that it is a yoke, borne unequally. You marry to keep love, but sometimes that is the surest way to lose it.

Not infrequently, when a man asks a woman to marry him, he means that he wants her to help him love himself, and if, blinded by her own feeling, she takes him for her captain, her pleasure craft becomes a pirate ship, the colours change to a black flag with a sinister sign, and her inevitable destiny is the coral reef.