Even in the same family, one child will always instinctively know when to ask for things, and another won't.

Some women love only what they can hold in their arms; others, only what they can't.

Vanity, revenge, loneliness, boredom, all apply: lust is one of the least of the reasons for promiscuity.

What you can't get out of, get into wholeheartedly.

We have a terror of seeming to exert ourselves, lest it be noticed that we exerted ourselves and did not succeed.

We waste a lot of time running after people we could have caught by just standing still.

The neurotic usually obeys his own Golden Rule: Hate thy neighbor as thyself.