A good story is obviously a difficult thing to invent, but its difficulty is a poor reason for despising it.

It is not for nothing that artists have called their works the children of their brains and likened the pains of production to the pains of childbirth.

Art, unless it leads to right action, is no more than the opium of an intelligentsia.

Look after your laundry, and your soul will look after itself.

If a man hasn't what's necessary to make a woman love him, it's his fault, not hers.

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.

No married man's ever made up his mind until he's heard what his wife has got to say about it.