Neurosis is no worse than a bad cold; you ache all over, and it's made you a mess, but you won't die from it.

Neurotic: someone who can go from the bottom to the top, and back again, without ever once touching the middle.

If your children spend most of their time in other people's houses, you're lucky; if they all congregate at your house, you're blessed.

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

If it came true, it wasn't much of a dream.

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

A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote.