One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats |
Only lies and evil come from letting people off. |
People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us. |
People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us. |
Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference. |
Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream. |
Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating! |
Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for revenge. |
The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries. |
The cry of equality pulls everyone down. |
The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe. |
The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all. |
The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession. |
The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession. |
There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship. |