It is difficult to deal successfully, he decided, with a woman whose feelings cannot be hurt.

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

So long as one is able to pose one has still much to learn about suffering.

... 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.

Nobody, not even the old, not even the despairing, wished to come to an end in time or in eternity.

No idea is so antiquitated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not some day be antiquitated . . . to seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality.

audacity is of all qualities the most youthful.