The conventions of society are all in the interests of morality. If you're conventional, you'll be good, in a negative sense, of course.

Did you ever read a love-letter that wasn't an evidence of idiocy - except your own?

... no matter how one's heart aches, one can do the necessary things and do them well.

It is personal vanity of the most flagrant type which intrudes itself, unasked, into other people's affairs. There are few of us who do not feel capable of ordering the daily lives of others, down to the most minute detail.

marriage is a great strain upon love.

I experienced the discomfort of those who have moved mentally, but are still clamped, physically, to the places they have moved from.

the world has been fair cruel if you've never known the love of a dog!