One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one's life with her.

Cronshaw stopped for a moment to drink. He had pondered for twenty years the problem whether he loved liquor because it made him talk or whether he loved conversation because it made him thirsty.

You see, money to you means freedom; to me it means bondage.

The worst of having so much tact was that you never quite knew whether other people were acting naturally or being tactful too. [The human element]

Illusions are like umbrellas - you no sooner get them than you lose them, and the loss always leaves a little painful wound.

We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.