“Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark
“War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.
“Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low
“A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.
“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
“Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough
“If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed
“There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
“There was a time when we were not: this gives us no concern - why then should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be?
“If you have it (love), you don't need to have anything else. If you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.