Given a decent start any girl can beat a man nowadays.

The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter.

Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry.

Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people's lives. Yet from this fog his affection emerged--the best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation.

Forgotten is forgiven.

I hope I haven't given you the impression that I consider kissing intrinsically irrational.

I'm inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores.