You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.

To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.

My idea of man's chief end was to enrich the world with things of beauty, and have a fairly good time myself while doing so.

His past was fairly blameless; few men could read the rolls of their life with less apprehension; yet he was humbled to the dust by the many ill things he had done, and raised up again into sober and fearful gratitude by the many he had come so near to doing, yet avoided.

Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind.