To drink for pleasure may be a distraction, but to drink from misery is always a danger.
audacity is of all qualities the most youthful.
After all, you can't expect men not to judge by appearances.
It is difficult to deal successfully, he decided, with a woman whose feelings cannot be hurt.
convictions ... are always getting in the way of opportunities.
idealism, that gaudy coloring matter of passion, fades when it is brought beneath the trenchant white light of knowledge. Ideals, like mountains, are best at a distance.