... safety that depends on an apron-string is very unsafe!

we middle-aged folk have the education of life, truly; we know the multiplication table of anxieties and sorrows, the subtraction table of loss, the division table of responsibility.

... there must be reserves -- except with God. The human soul is solitary. But for confession that is different; justice and reparation sometimes demand it; but, again, justice and courage sometimes forbid it.

... some of the things floating about in the Well of Memory are not worth recording.

When it comes to bombshells, there are few that can be more effective than that small, flat, frail thing, a letter.

... when personal happiness conflicts with any great human ideal, the right to claim such happiness is as nothing compared to the privilege of resigning it.

as everybody knows, truthfulness and agreeable manners are often divorced on the ground of incompatibility.