It's the safety valve of middle life, and the solace of age.

[To her frequently needed plumber:] How would you like to be adopted? I'm sure it would be cheaper.

when knowledge comes in at the door, fear and superstition fly out of the window.

I began to feel that if religion was either an illusion or a revelation, it was simpler to accept it as an illusion.

Herbert used to say that he was as tight as the paper on the wall.

Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation.

Young Doctor Arden was gong through the process of reorienting himself after a night's sleep.