People have a right to be shocked; the mention of unmentionable things is a kind of participation in them.

I might give my life for my friend, but he had better not ask me to do up a parcel.

When elderly invalids meet with fellow-victims of their own ailments, then at last real conversation begins, and life is delicious.

All reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.

Whiskey has killed more men than bullets, but most men would rather be full of whiskey than bullets.

Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior.

All our lives we are putting pennies — our most golden pennies — into penny-in-the-slot machines that are almost always empty.