Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.

Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong Kong.

Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.

It is no good my telling you. One never believes other people’s experiencem and one is only very gradually convinced by one’s own.

I don’t know what to say to you expect that it tore my heart out of my body saying goodbye to you.

Small pleasures must correct great tragedies, therefore of gardens in the midst of war I bold tell.

Since one cannot have truth,’ cried Sebastian, struggling into his evening shirt, ’let us at least have good manners.

There is nothing more lovely in life than the union of two people whose love for one another has grown through the years, from the small acorn of passion, into a great rooted tree.

All emotion now was a twilight thing.

It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment.