To look at a thing is very different from seeing it.

When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love, and the wise already have one in reserve.

To define is to limit.

The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and between two people of widely different culture the only common basis possible is the lowest level.

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

Only the great masters of style ever succeed in being obscure.