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

We've all of us got to meet the devil alone. Temptation is a lonely business.

To talk over a quarrel, with its inevitable accompaniment of self-justification, is too much like handling cobwebs to be very successful.

I notice that when people have no sense of responsibility, you call them either criminals or geniuses.

men love their wives not because of their virtues, but in spite of them.

gossip, after it reaches a certain point of insult and falsehood, becomes a source of amusement to its victims.

Twenty-five years ago, Christmas was not the burden that it is now; there was less haggling and weighing, less quid pro quo, less fatigue of body, less weariness of soul; and, most of all, there was less loading up with trash.