There are books that one needs maturity to enjoy just as there are books an adult can come on too late to savor.

I have read that during the process of canonization the Catholic Church demands proof of joy in the candidate, and although I have not been able to track down chapter and verse I like the suggestion that dourness is not a sacred attribute.

It's this no-nonsense side of women that is pleasant to deal with. They are the real sportsmen.

A lover would find life less broken apart after a misguided love affair if they could feel that they had been sinful rather than foolish.

A bookworm in bed with a new novel and a good reading lamp is as much prepared for pleasure as a pretty girl at a college dance.

Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Sometimes I have a notion that what might improve the situation is to have women take over the occupations of government and trade and to give men their freedom.