It is the fear of middle-age in the young, of old-age in the middle-aged, which is the prime cause of infidelity, that infallible rejuvenator.

Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.

Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we have learned to walk.

Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of charm.

Like the bee its sting, the promiscuous leave behind them in each encounter something of themselves by which they are made to suffer.

A great writer created a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may entice them in for a moment, but soon he will watch them filing out.

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.