... safety that depends on an apron-string is very unsafe!
as I get older there is nothing more constantly astonishing to me than the goodness of the Bad; - unless it is the badness of the Good.
Nothing may be more selfish than remorse.
We've all of us got to meet the devil alone. Temptation is a lonely business.
When it comes to bombshells, there are few that can be more effective than that small, flat, frail thing, a letter.
Age, per se, may claim tenderness and pity, but not respect; that only comes when the years have brought humanity and wisdom and the experience that worketh hope.