Tilling the fertile soil of man's vanity.

But there is, I have learned, no permanent escape from the past. It may be an unrecognized law of our nature that we should be drawn back, inevitably, to the place where we have suffered most.

Cruelty, I truly believe, is the one and only sin.

Given two tempers and the time, the ordinary marriage produces anarchy.

... the ordinary is simply the universal observed from the surface, that the direct approach to reality is not without, but within. Touch life anywhereand you will touch universality wherever you touch the earth.

The government's like a mule, it's slow and it's sure; it's slow to turn, and it's sure to turn the way you don't want it.

The nearer she came to death, the more, by some perversity of nature, did she enjoy living.