Nowadays people write English as if a rat were caught in the typewriter and they were trying to hit the keys which wouldn't disturb it.

Fashions in sin change.

Callous greed grows pious very fast.

Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.

Courtesy is breeding. Breeding is an excellent thing. Always remember that.

You lose your manners when you're poor.

If you believe, as the Greeks did, that man is at the mercy of the gods, then you write tragedy. The end is inevitable from the beginning. But if you believe that man can solve his own problems and is at nobody's mercy, then you will probably write melodrama.