Not enough attention is paid to the negative side of fashion. Great effort is exerted to make people look smart, but somebody should face the fact that a lot of people never will be smart, and that they should be given some assistance in maintaining their fascinating dowdiness.

Women say . . . that if men had to have babies there would soon be no babies in the world. . . . I have sometimes wished that some clever man would actually have a baby in some new labor-saving way; then all men could take it up, and one of the oldest taunts in the world would be stilled forever.

In my experience tact is usually worse than the brutalities of truth.

The book forces itself into my mind when I am lugging furniture, or pulling weeds.

There are times when I think that the reading I have done in the past has had no effect except to cloud my mind and make me indecisive

A man must be obedient to the promptings of his innermost heart.

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.