The fact is, the secret of happiness is the sense of proportion.

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!

as everybody knows, truthfulness and agreeable manners are often divorced on the ground of incompatibility.

I'm not to blame for an old body, but I would be to blame for an old soul. An old soul is a shameful thing.

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

One must desire something to be alive.

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.