The lonely become either thoughtful or empty.
Travelers never think that they are the foreigners.
Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge.
The shades of respectability begin to close about the greying head.
Three meals plus bedtime make four sure blessings a day.
Affection reproaches, but does not denounce.
A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats.
Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.
Magic trick: to make people disappear, ask them to fulfill their promises.
Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm.
Observe decorum, and it will open a path to morality.
The wisdom of age: don't stop walking.
We are prepared for insults, but compliments leave us baffled.
Consciousness is our only reprieve from Time.
Kindness eases everything almost as much as money does.
After an argument, silence may mean acceptance or the continuation of resistance by other means.
Money: power at its most liquid.
I love you is the inscription on Pandora's box.
Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little.
To confer dignity, forgive. To express contempt, forget.
