Puritans will never believe it, but life is full of disagreeable things that aren't even good for you.

We have to call it "freedom": who'd want to die for "a lesser tyranny"

No woman wants to see herself too clearly.

Family quarrels have a total bitterness unmatched by others. Yet it sometimes happens that they also have a kind of tang, a pleasantness beneath the unpleasantness, based on the tacit understanding that this is not for keeps; that any limb you climb out on will still be there later for you to climb back.

Women flirt to keep their stock high, men to get somewhere.

Only where children gather is there any real chance of fun.

Creative work is one of life's greatest pleasures, and the only one we will gladly interrupt.