What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.

For every fresh stage in our lives we need a fresh education, and there is no stage for which so little educational preparation is made as that which follows the reproductive period.

To live remains an art which everyone must learn, and which no one can teach.

The average husband enjoys the total effect of his home but is usually unable to contribute any of the details of work and organisation that make it enjoyable.

The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.

However well organised the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

No act can be quite so intimate as the sexual embrace.