My God,' he gasped, 'you're fun to kiss.

Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.

It's a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people. You can hold your tongue, and, moreover, you can time any little irregularity of your own so that everybody else is so blind that they don't see or care.

I couldn't forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified.

Don't say 'wife.' I'm your mistress. Wife's such an ugly word. Your 'permanent mistress' is so much more tangible and desirable… .

he was figuratively following along beside her as she walked the fence, ready to catch her if she should fall.

No decent career was ever founded on a public.