Those who have bound themselves are only too eager to see the chains on others. - Christopher Morley

You know, a woman only falls in love once in her life, and if it waits until she's darn near forty — well, it takes!

Long ago I fell back on books as the only permanent consolers. They are the one stainless and unimpeachable achievement of the human race. It saddens me to think that I shall have to die with thousands of books unread that would have given me noble and unblemished happiness.

There is only one success: to be able to spend life in your own way and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it.