The woman who can't influence her husband to vote the way she wants ought to be ashamed of herself.

Human beings have their great chance in the novel.

Don't be mysterious; there isn't the time.

For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better.

For a wonderful physical tie binds the parents to the children; and - by some sad, strange irony - it does not bind us children to our parents. For if it did, if we could answer their love not with gratitude but with equal love, life would lose much of its pathos and much of its squalor, and we might be wonderfully happy.

Humility is a quality for which I have only a limited admiration. In many phases of life it is a great mistake and degenerates into defensiveness or hypocrisy.

Nonsense and beauty have close connections.