In church, sacred music would make believers of us all — but preachers can be counted on to restore the balance.

Life is a mixed blessing, which we vainly try to unmix.

You can't truthfully explain your smallest action without fully revealing your character.

It does not undo harm to acknowledge that we have done it; but it undoes us not to acknowledge it.

Women usually love what they buy, yet hate two-thirds of what is in their closets.

The neurotic is always half-drowning in anxiety, and always being half-rescued.

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.