It is clear that men accept an immediate pain rather than an immediate pleasure, but only because they expect a greater pleasure in the future. Often the pleasure is illusory, but their error in calculation is no refutation of the rule.

I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

Writing is a wholetime job: no professional writer can afford only to write when he feels like it.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

We didn't think much in the air corps of a fellow who wangled a cushy job out of his C.O. by buttering him up. It was hard for me to believe that God thought much of a man who tried to wangle salvation by fulsome flattery. I should have thought the worship most pleasing to him was to do your best according to your lights.

I do not think you want too much sincerity in society. It would be like an iron girder in a house of cards.

What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.