Mutual suspicions of mental inadequacy are common during the first year of any marriage.

When man gives up on reforming and inspiring society he also gives up his freedom.

Beautiful things don't ask for attention.

The things we laugh at are awful while they are going on, but get funny when we look back. And other people laugh because they've been through it too. The closest thing to humor is tragedy.

Until a man can quit talking loudly to himself in order to shout down the memories of blunderings and gropings, he is in no shape for the painstaking examination of distress.

It was Lisa, aged five, whose mother asked her to thank my wife for the peas we had sent them from our garden. 'I thought the peas were awful, I wish you and Mrs. Thurber were dead, and I hate trees,' said Lisa.

There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.