Writing only leads to more writing.
It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.
The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.