There are many people who consider love a dream, but they usually grow to think of marriage as the cold breakfast.

it is bad manners to contradict a guest. You must never insult people in your own house - always go to theirs.

A bird is joy incarnate.

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.

How strange it is that life must be nearly over, before one fully learns to live!

It is personal vanity of the most flagrant type which intrudes itself, unasked, into other people's affairs. There are few of us who do not feel capable of ordering the daily lives of others, down to the most minute detail.

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