Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time.

Marriages we regard as the happiest are those in which each of the partners believes he or she got the best of it.

Nice things are done for our own sake, not for the sake of others. The pleasure must reside in the performance, not in the applause. Good deeds are, in a deeper psychological way, a favor to oneself. If this is not grasped, then our whole sense of personal relationships becomes warped.

Much as a teacher may wince at the thought, he is also an entertainer—for unless he can hold his audience, he cannot really instruct or edify them.

Somebody who never got over the embarrassing fact that he was born in bed with a lady.

The real heretic is not the atheist or agnostic (who are often decent people) but those who murmur "it doesn't matter what you believe, as long as it makes you feel good." This turns religion into a subjective matter, like taste in furnishings, and robs theology of its claim to ultimate truth.

You may be sure that when a man begins to call himself a realist he is preparing to do something that he is secretly ashamed of doing.