“In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape.”

“In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape.”

“Words are as recalcitrant as circus animals and the unskilled trainer can crack his whip at them in vain.”

“Poets and painters are outside the class system or rather they constitute a special class of their own like the circus people and the gypsies.”

“Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned.”

“Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.”