It is astonishing how the human animal survives its misfortunes.

It seemed a good idea at the time.

A good cause has to be careful of the company it keeps.

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.

A child is an adult temporarily enduring conditions which exclude the possibility of happiness.

International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge.

Domesticity is essentially drama, for drama is conflict, and the home compels conflict by its concentration of active personalities in a small area. The real objection to domesticity is that it is too exciting.