You and I who still enjoy fairy tales have less reason to wish actual childhood back. We have kept its pleasures and added some grown-up ones as well.

A society in which conjugal infidelity is tolerated must always be in the long run a society adverse to women.

Notice how we are perpetually surprised at Time. ('How time flies! Fancy John being grown-up and married! I can hardly believe it!') In heavens name, why? Unless, indeed, there is something in us which is not temporal.

Those who do not think about their own sins make up for it by thinking incessantly about the sins of others.

We have had enough, once and for all, of Hedonism--the gloomy philosophy which says that Pleasure is the only good.

If you simply try to tell the truth you will, nine times out of ten, be original without ever having noticed it.

Most people don't need to be taught, they need only to be reminded