Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

The people who love only once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination. Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failure.

People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

Hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing whatever to do.