Reticences Are As Revealing As Avowals.

Influencing People Is Dangerous. Their Acts And Thoughts Become Your Illegitimate Children. You Can't Get Away From Them And Heaven Knows What They Mayn't Grow Up Into.

Friendship Is A Difficult, Dangerous Job. It Is Also (though We Rarely Admit It) Extremely Exhausting.

We Learn Nothing By Being Right.

The Ten Commandments Don't Tell You What You Ought To Do: They Only Put Ideas Into Your Head.

Temptations Make One Very Censorious. If You Are Virtuous You Condemn The Wicked And If You Are Wicked, You Condemn The Virtuous.