Love requires a willingness to die; marriage, a willingness to live.

Neurotics expect you to remember all the things that they tell you, and many that they don't.

A husband only worries about a particular Other Man; a wife distrusts her whole species.

There's something in every atheist, itching to believe, and something in every believer, itching to doubt.

Most of our diversions do not so much delay death as accustom us to it.

Self-confidence grows on trees, in other people's orchards.

Few of us could bear to have ourselves for neighbors.