The only way to even approach doing something perfectly is through experience, and experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.
In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.
America is one long expectoration.
All sins, except a sin against itself, Love should forgive. All lives, save loveless lives, true Love should pardon.
Early in life she had discovered the important truth that nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion; and by a series of reckless escapades, half of them quite harmless, she had acquired all the privileges of a personality.