Marriage is like democracy - it doesn't really work, but it's all we've been able to come up with.

What you fear most will happen to you - that is the law.

For most people it's easier to support an eminent person in deserved disgrace than an obscure one who has been wronged.

Marriage is like democracy - it doesn't really work, but it's all we've been able to come up with.

Great literature is like moral leadership; everyone deplores the lack of it, but there is a tendency to prefer it from the safely dead.

That was the trouble with experience; it taught you that most people were capable of anything, so that loyalty was never quite on firm ground -- or, rather, became a matter of pardoning offenses instead of denying their existence.

In thoughts one keeps a reserve of hope, in spite of everything. You cannot say good-bye in imagination. That is something you can only do in actuality.