Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.

Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!

There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.

Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.

Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.

Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved.

A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.

A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the façade of his appearance.

The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession.