If you value a man's regard strive with him. As to liking you like your newspaper - and despise it.

Author: Andre Maurois

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by.