a short cut to matrimonial unhappiness is not to have the same taste in jokes!

Of all the bitter and heavy things in this sorry old world, the not being necessary is the bitterest and heaviest.

nothing is as conventional as adolescence.

a manufactured interest has no staying quality - especially if it involves any hard work.

... perhaps there is no conceit so arrogant as the conceit which follows a conviction of emancipation.

as I get older there is nothing more constantly astonishing to me than the goodness of the Bad; - unless it is the badness of the Good.

By some mysterious method, Susan Carr's gossip gave the listener a gentler feeling towards his kind. When she spoke of her neighbors' faults, one knew that somehow they were simply virtues gone to seed.