Cruelty is the only sin.
it is wiser to be conventionally immoral than unconventionally moral. It isn't the immorality they object to, but the originality.
convictions ... are always getting in the way of opportunities.
It is only in the heart that anything really happens.
Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity.
Although the primitive in art may be both interesting and impressive, as portrayed in American fiction it is conspicuous for dullness alone. Drab persons living drab lives, observed by drab minds and reported in drab writing.