Death deceives relations often, and doctors sometimes, but the patient - never.

There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.

Marriage! ... Why, it is like living in a thimble with a hippopotamus!

There is no thermometer for wants!

A desire that has never been fulfilled is considerably less acute than one that has been fulfilled and then checked at the source.

Curiosity is the only thing that really carries through time, isn't it? The creative curiosity, I mean, which fights its way into expression?

Time indeed has very little to do with living except at its beginning or near its end.