When the individual feels, the community reels.

The poet's place, it seems to me, is with the Mr. Hydes of human nature.

Only a person with a Best Seller mind can write Best Sellers.

The sum of evil, Pascal remarked, would be much diminished if men could only learn to sit quietly in their rooms.

All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects.

Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.

Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.