I believe that more unhappiness comes from this source than from any other - I mean from the attempt to prolong family connections unduly and to make people hang together artificially who would never naturally do so.

To live is like love, all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to tell a lie well.

I believe that more unhappiness comes from this source than from any other-I mean from the attempt to prolong family connections unduly and to make people hang together artificially who would never naturally do so.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

Life is not so much a riddle to be read as a Gordian knot that will get cut sooner or later.

Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.

I can generally bear the separation, but I don't like the leave-taking.

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.