Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.

Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.

Authority is quite degrading.

Life is too short to be in a hurry.

I never take any notice to what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do.

The greatest of all sins is stupidity.

Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.