When married people don't get on they can separate, but if they're not married it's impossible. It's a tie that only death can sever.

To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give... You will find that people forget the failures of others very quickly.... My last piece of advice is not to let anyone see your mortification, but whatever you fancy people are saying about you to go on with your ordinary life as though nothing unpleasant had happened to you.

We can none of us step into the same river twice, but the river flows on and the other river we step into is cool and refreshing, too

By the time a man notices that he is no longer young, his youth has long since left him.

The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.

Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.

If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn't matter a damn how you write.