Write a novel if you must, but think of money as an unlikely accident. Get your reward out of writing it, and try to be content with that.

The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between its men and its women.

Science and religion, religion and science, put it as it may, they are the two sides of the same glass, through which we see darkly until these two focus together, reveal the truth.

Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.

Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.

A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated and turned out to grass.

You are right,” he had said. “Love is not the word. No one can love his neighbor. Say, rather, ‘Know thy neighbor as thyself.” That is, comprehend his hardships and understand his position, deal with his faults as gently as with your own. Do not judge him where you do not judge yourself. Madame, this is the meaning of the word love.