All couples must bear the strain of getting acquainted, having been, up to then, merely intimate.

"You ought to be ashamed," a woman in an Easter bonnet told Stein. "Your race gave us our religion..." "From ancient polytheism, the belief in lots of gods," the woman continued a little more eruditely, "the Hebrew nation led us on to the idea that there is only one." "Which is just a step from the truth," said Stein.

Pain is the question mark turned like a fishhook in the human heart.

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Man is vile, I know, but people are wonderful.

We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other. It may be the very recognition of all men as our brothers that accounts for the sibling rivalry, and even enmity, we have toward so many of them.

Are you pro- or anti-macassar?