Those who imagine that the world is against them have generally conspired to make it true.

The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.

Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.

Marriages we regard as the happiest are those in which each of the partners believes he or she got the best of it.

Somebody who never got over the embarrassing fact that he was born in bed with a lady.

We can often endure an extra pound of pain far more easily than we can suffer the withdrawal of an ounce of accustomed pleasure.

The principal difference between love and hate is that love is a irradiation, and hate is a concentration. Love makes everything lovely; hate concentrates itself on the object of its hatred.