But there are people who take salt with their coffee. They say it gives a tang, a savour, which is peculiar and fascinating. In the same way there are certain places, surrounded by a halo of romance, to which the inevitable disillusionment you experience on seeing them gives a singular spice. You had expected something wholly beautiful and you get an impression which is infinitely more complicated than any that beauty can give you. It is the weakness in the character of a great man which may make him less admirable but certainly more interesting. Nothing had prepared me for Honolulu.

Love is not always blind and there are few things that cause greater wretchedness than to love with all your heart someone who you know is unworthy of love.

For the complete life, the perfect pattern includes old age as well as youth and maturity.

Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.

I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.

Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous.

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.