"You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage."

"There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last."

"The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us."

"There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may."

"The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action."

"And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days."

"Stillness is not emptiness; it is the presence of unencumbered clarity. This remains the cornerstone of personal mastery."

"Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?"