“ The only thing that keeps a man going is energy. And what is energy but liking life? Louis Auchincloss
“ Not the least of the hardships to which the dying are subject is the visitation of their loved ones. The poor darlings, God bless them, may feel every impulse to condole and console, but their primary… Louis Auchincloss
“ I used to go to church. I even went through a rather intense religious period when I was sixteen. But the idea of an everlasting life -- a never-ending banquet, as a stupid visiting minister to our ch… Louis Auchincloss
“ But Pierre had been born with a shrewdness that made him early aware that a failure to believe that human events were ordered by a higher power was regarded by many in the highest positions as obnoxio… Louis Auchincloss
