it is wiser to be conventionally immoral than unconventionally moral. It isn't the immorality they object to, but the originality.

you could have forgiven my committing a sin if you hadn't feared that I had a committed a pleasure as well.

America has enjoyed the doubtful blessing of a single-track mind.

After a day of rain the sun came out suddenly at five o'clock and threw a golden bar into the deep Victorian gloom of the front parlour

there are times when life surprises one, and anything may happen, even what one had hoped for.

Tilling the fertile soil of man's vanity.

Nobody, not even the old, not even the despairing, wished to come to an end in time or in eternity.