By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills.
I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer.
There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.