Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.

The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.

The worst of having so much tact was that you never quite knew whether other people were acting naturally or being tactful too. [The human element]

There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.

You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.

No married man's ever made up his mind until he's heard what his wife has got to say about it.

Are you sure you can prevent yourself from falling in love one of these days? Such things do happen, you know, even to the most prudent men.' Simon gave him a strange, one might even have thought a hostile, look. I should tear it out of my heart as I'd wrench out of my mouth a rotten tooth.