Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love.

One of the chief differences between an adult and a juvenile is that the adult knows when he is an ass while the juvenile never does.

It is always safe to assume that people are more subtle and less sensitive than they seem.

Nothing so offends the doctrinaire intellectual as our ability to achieve the momentous in a matter-of-fact way, unblessed by words.

Sensuality reconciles us with the human race. The misanthropy of the old is due in large part to the fading of the magic glow of desire.

It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living.

Resistance, whether to one's appetites or to the ways of the world, is a chief factor in the shaping of character.