Even the great can have only their own sort of greatness.

Shutting one's eyes is an art, my dear. I suppose there's no use trying to make you see that - but that's the only way one can stay married.

Nothing seems so tragic to one who is old as the death of one who is young, and this alone proves that life is a good thing.

Work alone qualifies us for life.

It's all right to tell a wife the brutal truth, but you've got to go sort of easy with your lady-love.

Forgetting is the cost of living cheerfully.

The success-haters. That's what I call them -- the people who have never got what they want and turned sour on everybody who has. The world's full of them. As soon as you've made good they begin to watch for you to fail.