The great trues are too important to be new.

There is no object to life. To nature nothing matters but the continuation of the species.

The tragedy of love is not death or separation. How long do you think it would have been before one or other of them ceased to care? Oh, it is dreadfully bitter to look at a woman whom you have loved with all your heart and soul, so that you felt you could not bear to let her out of your sight, and realize that you would not mind if you never saw her again. The tragedy of love is indifference.

One does not really feel much grief at other people's sorrows; one tries, and puts on a melancholy face, thinking oneself brutal for not caring more; but one cannot and it is better, for if one grieved too deeply at other people's tears, life would be unendurable; and every man has sufficient sorrows of his own without taking to heart his neighbour's.

Thank God, I can look at a sunset now without having to think how to describe it

I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don't.

It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, 'I don't know.'