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.

Real divorce takes place without a decree.

I'm not to blame for an old body, but I would be to blame for an old soul. An old soul is a shameful thing.

Isn't there any statute of limitation in things spiritual? I don't believe any large mind dwells on its sins, any more than on its virtues!

moral vanity is the snare of good people.

There isn't any virtue where there has never been any temptation.

In connection with death, or birth, or love, modesty is only a rather puerile self-consciousness.