As soon as you feel too old to do a thing, do it.

... it is curious how fatal it is, either to a situation or to an individual, or even to a name, if in an evil moment it becomes funny.

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.

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

the blue and cloudless day closes like the lid of a casket of jewels upon the violet rim of sea, and shuts out the light.

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

When two duties jostle each other, one of 'em isn't a duty.