... there must be reserves -- except with God. The human soul is solitary. But for confession that is different; justice and reparation sometimes demand it; but, again, justice and courage sometimes forbid it.

Absurdity is the one thing love can't stand; it can overlook anything else, -- coldness, or weakness, or viciousness, -- but just be ridiculous and that's the end of it!

Hearts don't come when Reason whistles to 'em.

Habit does much to reconcile us to unpleasantness.

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

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

Of all the bitter and heavy things in this sorry old world, the not being necessary is the bitterest and heaviest.