Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them

In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short

People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel

If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain

All of us, from time to time, need a plunge into freedom and novelty, after which routine and discipline will seem delightful by contrast

There are deserts in every life, and the desert must be depicted if we are to give a fair and complete idea of the country

Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly