Like its politicians and its war, society has the teenagers it deserves

Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes

I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes.

It is no use speaking in soft, gentle tones if everyone else is shouting

The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate

The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write

Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch