I cannot abide the Mr. and Mrs. Noah attitude towards marriage; the animals went in two by two, forever stuck together with glue.

It is no good my telling you. One never believes other people's experiencem and one is only very gradually convinced by one's own.

Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it.

Serenity of spirit and turbulence of action should make up the sum of a man's life.

Travel is a private pleasure, since it consists entirely of things felt and things seen.

For a young man to start his career with a love affair with an older woman was quite de rigueur ... Of course, it must not go on for too long. An apprenticeship was a very different thing from a career.

For bees are captious folk / And quick to turn against the lubber's touch.