We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.

The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.

There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

Why did you look at the sunset?' Philip answered with his mouth full: Because I was happy.

When married people don't get on they can separate, but if they're not married it's impossible. It's a tie that only death can sever.