Some people's blameless lives are to blame for a good deal.

Here be dragons to be slain, here be rich rewards to gain; If we perish in the seeking, why, how small a thing is death!

I often think when a man's once past a certain age, the older he grows the tougher he gets, and women the same or more so.

It's disquieting to reflect that one's dreams never symbolize one's real wishes, but always something Much Worse... If I really wanted to be passionately embraced by Peter, I should dream of dentists or gardening. I wonder what unspeakable depths of awfulness can only be expressed by the polite symbol of Peter's embraces?

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

... to mention honor was to suggest its opposite.

A person who tells a secret, swearing the recipient to secrecy in turn, is asking of the other person a discretion which he is abrogating himself.