Things you can't understand are always the hardest to bear. To know why is the first step to consolation.

Anyone who pretends not to be interested in money is either a fool or a knave.

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

Anger was both a disfiguring and a revealing passion.

The fact is, for most of us, what happens to ourselves is so much more important than what happens to other people that the smallest mote in our own eye will prevent us from being unduly harrowed by someone else's beam.

A good many established writers seem to have the feeling that some day they are going to be found out, revealed as frauds.

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