All paraphrases and expletives are so much in disuse that soon the only way of making love will be to say, "Lie down.

In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.

Art and life ought to be hurriedly remarried and brought to live together.

[A distressing event] came like a door banging on to a silent room.

The most wonderful of all things in life is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a growing depth, beauty and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing; it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of divine accident, and the most wonderful of all things in life.

Happiness comes, I know, from some spring within a man — from some curious adjustment to life.

A bibliomaniac is one to whom books are like bottles of whiskey to the inebriate, to whom anything that is between covers has an intoxicating savor.