To have passed through life and never experienced solitude is to have never known oneself. To have never known oneself is to have never known anyone.

A book ... unlike a television program, moving picture or any other 'modern means of communication' ... can wait for years, yet be available at any moment when it happens to be needed.

There is no such thing as a dangerous woman; there are only susceptible men.

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.

Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and a sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery.

The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism, but February.... Spring is too far away to comfort even by anticipation, and winter long ago lost the charm of novelty. This is the very three a.m. of the calendar.

Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had.