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

Money and sex are forces too unruly for our reason; they can only be controlled by taboos with which we tamper at our peril.

The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.

When we say we are certain so-and-so can't possibly have done it, what we mean is that we think he very likely did.

Youth is the time for adventures of the body, but age for the triumphs of the mind.

How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true!

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