But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example.

To make laws is a human instinct that arises as soon as food and shelter have been ensured, among all peoples, everywhere.

The aged are terrible - mere heaps of cinders on the grass from which none can tell how tall the flames once were or what company gathered round them.

I find to my astonishment that an unhappy marriage goes on being unhappy when it is over.

Great music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values it asserts.

I do not think women understand how repelled a man feels when he sees a woman wholly absorbed in what she is thinking, unless it is about her child, or her husband, or her lover. It ... gives one gooseflesh.

... when the Spaniards persecuted heretics they may have been crude, but they were not being unreasonable or unpractical. They were at least wiser than the people of to-day who pretend that it does not matter what a man believes, as who should say that the flavour and digestibility of a pudding will have nothing to do with its ingredients.