It does not undo harm to acknowledge that we have done it; but it undoes us not to acknowledge it.

Puritans will never believe it, but life is full of disagreeable things that aren't even good for you.

It's terrifying to see someone inside of whom a vital spring seems to have been broken. It's particularly terrifying to see him in your mirror.

Few of us could bear to have ourselves for neighbors.

God doesn't measure His bounty, but oh how we do!

Few novels or plays could exist without at least one troublemaker in the group, and perhaps life couldn't either.

It's hard to feel middle-aged, because how can you tell how long you are going to live?