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

Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.

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.

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.

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

When it comes to bombshells, there are few that can be more effective than that small, flat, frail thing, a letter.

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