Husbands and wives quarrel a lot more than anyone thinks, and it's oftener about little things than big ones.

The most trying moments in human experience were those in which there was nothing to be done except to wait.

When you've just made the most complete fool of yourself, you feel the need of a specially high horse to ride.

When there is too much to say it is easier to say nothing at all.

It is always better to say too little than too much.

You can't do such a lot and do it all so well and have much time left for the ordinary human feelings.

I used to do miserably in English literature, which I thought was a sign of moral turpitude. As I look back on it, I think it was rather to my credit. The notion of actually putting writers' words into other words is quite ridiculous because why bother if writers mean what they mean, and if they don't, why read them? There is, I suppose, a case for studying literary works in depth, but I don't quite know what 'in depth' means unless you read a paragraph over and over again.