Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.

It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.

No man in his heart is quite so cynical as a well-bred woman.

Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.

There are men who are possessed by an urge so strong to do some particular thing that they can't help themselves, they've got to do it. They're prepared to sacrifice everything to satisfy their yearning.

I've met so many people, often the scum of the earth, and found them, you know, quite decent. I am an uncomfortable stranger to moral indignation.