Most people like reading about what they already know - there is even a public for yesterday's weather.

I do love translating; it is the pure pleasure of writing without the misery of inventing.

always either on a peak of happiness or drowning in black waters of despair they loved or they loathed, they lived in a world of superlatives

Americans relate all effort, all work, and all of life itself to the dollar. Their talk is of nothing but dollars.

What is so nice & so unexpected about life is the way it improves as it goes along. I think you should impress this fact on your children because I think young people have an awful feeling that life is slipping past them & they must do something - catch something - they don't quite know what, whereas they've only got to wait & it all comes.

The English lord marries for love, and is rather inclined to love where money is; he rarely marries in order to improve his coat of arms.

Always remember, children, that marriage is a very intimate relationship. It's not just sitting and chatting to a person; there are other things, you know.