Life is very persistent and very ingenious in seizing every opportunity.

Though we face the facts of sex we are more reluctant than ever to face the fact of death or the crueler facts of life, either biological or social.

It is sometimes easier to head an institute for the study of child guidance than it is to turn one brat into a decent human being.

The flowers never waste their sweetness on the desert air or, for that matter, on the jungle air. In fact, they waste it only when nobody except a human being is there to smell it. It is for the bugs and a few birds, not for men, that they dye their petals or waft their scents.

We must not judge the society of the future by considering whether or not we should like to live in it; the question is whether those who have grown up in it will be happier than those who have grown up in our society or those of the past.

The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

A tragic writer does not have to believe in God, but he must believe in man.