I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean.

I can believe anything provided it is quite incredible.

With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.

The man who says his wife can't take a joke, forgets that she took him.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace.

Ordinary people waited till life disclosed to them its secrets, but to the few, to the elect, the mysteries of life were revealed before the veil was drawn away. Sometimes this was the effect of art, and chiefly of the art of literature, which dealt immediately with the passions and the intellect.