I have no faith in a human critter who hasn't one or two bad habits.

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.

What I object to in Mother is that she wants me to think her thoughts. Apart from the question of hypocrisy, I prefer my own.

Weakness is a great bully without knowing it.

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

There is no embarrassment quite like the embarrassment of listening to a person for whom one has a regard making a fool of himself.

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