A state of reverie does not avoid reality, it accedes to reality.

The life force is vigorous. The delight that accompanies it counter-balances all the pains and hardships that confront men. It makes life worth living.

Of all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free of class distinctions.

An author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his heart's blood into it, and then it lies about unread till the reader has nothing else in the world to do.

On the earth, satellite of a star speeding through space, living things had arisen under the influence of conditions which were part of the planet's history; and as there had been a beginning of life upon it, so, under the influence of other conditions, there would be an end: man, no more significant than other forms of life, had come not as the climax of creation but as a physical reaction to the environment.

A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.

Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.