Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do.

Conscience represents a fetich to which good people sacrifice their own happiness, bad people their neighbors'.

... beauty, like ecstasy, has always been hostile to the commonplace. And the commonplace, under its popular label of the normal,has been the supreme authority for Homo sapiens since the days when he was probably arboreal.

Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance.

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.

In her abhorrrence of a vacuum, Nature, for the furtherance of her favorite hobby, has often to resort to strange devices. If she could but understand that vacuity is sometimes better than superfluity!

... the novel, as a living force, if not as a work of art, owes an incalculable debt to what we call, mistakenly, the new psychology, to Freud, in his earlier interpretations, and more truly, I think, to Jung.