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.

it was always insolent for a common man to take a chair in the presence of a lady - the word LADY, we may be sure, capitalized in her mind, and denoting not sex but rank.

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

A mom isn't an individual to lean on, but a person to generate leaning needless.

The actions of a human being, even of fifteen months of age, may not be without significance to a sympathetic eye.

Never since the dawn of human history, as far as I can find out, did people long settled in any region give a friendly welcome to newcomers. One of the disagreeable traits of our human nature seems to be to dislike on sight people who come later than the first settlers.

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!