Ladies with curly hair / Have time to spare.

A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.

Children are forced to live very rapidly in order to live at all. They are given only a few years in which to learn hundreds of thousands of things about life and the planet and themselves.

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

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

Relations are errors that Nature makes. / Your spouse you can put on the shelf. / But your friends, dear friends, are the quaint mistakes / You always commit yourself.

The saints differ from us in their exuberance, the excess of our human talents. Moderation is not their secret. It is in the wildness of their dreams, the desperate vitality of their ambitions, that they stand apart from ordinary people of good will.