Nothing may be more selfish than remorse.

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.

What I object to in Mother is that she wants me to think her thoughts. Apart from the question of hypocrisy, I prefer my own.

In connection with death, or birth, or love, modesty is only a rather puerile self-consciousness.

I have no faith in a human critter who hasn't one or two bad habits.

Habit does much to reconcile us to unpleasantness.

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