People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
The cry of equality pulls everyone down.
One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance.
Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.
We can only learn to love by loving.
There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.
Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.