Of the small gifts of heaven, / It seems to me a more than equal share / At birth was given / To girls with curly hair.

History must always be taken with a grain of salt. It is, after all, not a science but an art.

Frigidity is largely nonsense. It is this generation's catchword, one only vaguely understood and constantly misused. Frigid women are few. There is a host of diffident and slow-ripening ones.

A bit of trash now and then is good for the severest reader. It provides the necessary roughage in the literary diet.

A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.

Love or perish" we are told and we tell ourselves. The phrase is true enough so long as we do not interpret it as "Mingle or be a failure.

The mass of men live lives of quiet exasperation.