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.

Death is the advertisement, at the end of an autobiography, wherein people discover its virtues.

Penetrate deeply in the secret existence of anyone about you, even of the man or woman whom you count happiest, and you will come upon things they spend all their efforts to hide. Fair as the exterior may be, if you go in, you will find bare places, heaps of rubbish that can never be taken away, cold hearths, desolate altars, and windows veiled with cobwebs.

It seems to take a lifetime for us to learn that wisdom consists largely in a graceful acceptance of things that do not immediately concern us.

Pedestals are always lonely.

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

Conceit is lovable and unconcealed ; vanity is supreme selfishness, usually hidden.