There is no object to life. To nature nothing matters but the continuation of the species.
W. Somerset MaughamIt is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.
W. Somerset MaughamWe are like people living in a country whose language they know so little that, with all manner of beautiful and profound things to say, they are condemned to the banalities of the conversation manual. Their brain is seething with ideas, and they can only tell you that the umbrella of the gardener's aunt is in the house.
W. Somerset Maugham