The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.

The full potentialities of human fury cannot be reached until a friend of both parties tactfully intervenes.

He had found the thing which the modern people call Impressionism, which is another name for that final scepticism which can find no floor to the universe.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

With every step of our lives we enter into the middle of some story which we are certain to misunderstand.

Leaving the complications of the human breakfast-table out of account, in an elemental sense, the egg only exists to produce the chicken. But the chicken does not exist only in order to produce another egg. He may also exist to amuse himself, to praise God, and even to suggest ideas to a French dramatist. Being a conscious life, he is, or may be, valuable in himself.

Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial. Melancholy should be an innocent interlude, a tender and fugitive frame of mind; praise should be the permanent pulsation of the soul.