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

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

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

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

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

There's one thing that always interests me about you good people, not your certainty that the rest of us are swine, - no doubt we are, - but your certainty that your opinions are pearls.

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