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.

Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.

I have heard that a man might be his own lawyer, but you can't be your own judge.

A pint can't hold a quart - if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.

When one promise jostles another, one of 'em isn't a promise.

You can't have genius without patience.

One must desire something to be alive; perhaps absolute satisfaction is only another name for Death.