Time heals nothing — which should make us the better able to minister.

He resented such questions as people do who have thought a great deal about them. The superficial and slipshod have ready answers, but those looking this complex life straight in the eye acquire a wealth of perception so composed of delicately balanced contradictions that they dread, or resent, the call to couch any part of it in a bland generalization. The vanity (if not outrage) of trying to cage this dance of atoms in a single definition may give the weariness of age with the cry of youth for answers the appearance of boredom.

"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.

The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.

Love's blindness consists oftener in seeing what is not there than in seeing what is.

I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.

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