Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongu... - Virginia Woolf

"When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?"

"I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."

"Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others."

"You cannot find peace by avoiding life."

"One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well."