Byron says that it is easier to die for the woman one loves than to live with her. - André Maurois

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.

We English, Lord Tyrrell, Ambassador to France, said to me about 1930, we English, after the war, made two mistakes: we believed the French, because they had been victorious, had become Germans, and we believed the Germans, through some mysterious transmutation, had become Englishmen.

Friendship is the positive and unalterable choice of a person whom we have singled out for qualities that we most admire.