There's no healthy life possible without some sensual feeling between the husband and wife, but there's nothing in the world more awful than married life when it's the only common ground.

the encounter with death is the great turning-point in the lives of those who live on.

You think religion is what's inside a little building filled with pretty lights from stained glass windows. But it's not. It's wings! Wings!

one reason we haven't any national art is because we have too much magnificence. All our capacity for admiration is used up on the splendor of palace-like railway stations and hotels. Our national tympanum is so deafened by that blare of sumptuousness that we have no ears for the still, small voice of beauty.

There is no human relationship more intimate than that of nurse and patient, one in which the essentials of character are more rawly revealed.

Libraries are the vessels in which the seed corn for the future is stored.

the most elementary experience of life proves that the effects of compulsion last exactly as long as the physical or moral club can be applied.