Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives not by truth but by make-believe.

Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult.

I don't know why it is that the religious never ascribe common sense to God.

Why did you look at the sunset?' Philip answered with his mouth full: Because I was happy.

and he loved her suddenly because she loved him.

Women's hearts are like old china, none the worse for a break or two.

The Americans, who are the most efficient people on the earth, have carried [phrase-making] to such a height of perfection and have invented so wide a range of pithy and hackneyed phrases that they can carry on an amusing and animated conversation without giving a moment’s reflection to what they are saying and so leave their minds free to consider the more important matters of big business and fornication.