An author who waits for the right 'mood' will soon find that 'moods' get fewer and fewer until they cease altogether.

College is a secluded life of scholastic vegetation

It never seems to occur to anybody that some women may not want to find husbands.

most of us have to be self-righteous before we can be righteous.

All that a pacifist can undertake -- but it is a very great deal -- is to refuse to kill, injure or otherwise cause suffering to another human creature, and untiringly to order his life by the rule of love though others may be captured by hate.

I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading.

We should never be at the mercy of Providence if only we understood that we ourselves are Providence.