I ain't never seen no head so level that it could bear the lettin' in of politics.

In the past few years, I have made a thrilling discovery ... that until one is over sixty, one can never really learn the secret of living. One can then begin to live, not simply with the intense part of oneself, but with one's entire being.

Spring, which germinated in the earth, moved also with a strange restlessness, in the hearts of... women. As the weeks passed, inextinguishable hope, which mounts with the rising sap, looked from their faces.

Given two tempers and the time, the ordinary marriage produces anarchy.

Tilling the fertile soil of man's vanity.

Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity.

I revolted from sentimentality, less because it was false than because it was cruel.