Good-fellowship, unflagging, is the prime requisite for success in our society, and the man or woman who smiles only for reasons of humor or pleasure is a deviate.

You cannot know what you do not feel.

Is there no end to this escalation of desire?

The faucet leak, and learn to leave them so.

You cannot throw words like heroism and sacrifice and nobility and honor away without abandoning the qualities they express.

In our long and obsessive passion for youth, we have - more than any other modern society - avoided direct approach to age and to dying by denying them in word, in fact, and - above all - in worth.

All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.