A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.

History is worth reading when it tells us truly what the attitude toward life was in the past.

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.

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.

Life takes hold of us with strong hands and makes us greater than we thought.

Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back into the shell.

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.