Very rare, the intelligence of the heart. The intelligence of the whimsical brain is less rare, less attaching, sometimes tedious.

Perhaps this is in the end what most marriages are - gentleness, memory, and habit.

For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.

Inevitably, the flood of literary pornography loosed on us is dulling our reactions of surprise or shock. Its writers are forced to raise the ante, to provide stronger and stronger stimulants. Or try to provide them, since both the manner, the naming of parts and the few inexpressive four-letter words, and the matter, are narrowly limited.

Nationalism will keep its venom until we succeed in creating an image of the nations of the whole world as so many provinces.

Failures to love are irremediable and irredeemable.

Critics have been amusing themselves for a long time by auscultating fiction for signs of heart failure.