Man would sooner have the Void for his purpose than be void of Purpose.

Most of the time in married life is taken up by talk.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

The sensible author writes for no other posterity than his own--that is, for his age--so as to be able even then to take pleasurein himself.

Life, and you, and I, and all of us together became for a while interesing to ourselves once more.

What good is all this free-thinking, modernity, and turncoat flexibility if at some gut level you are still a Christian, a Catholic, and even a priest!

The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.