Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that.
I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.