Conscience is the guardian in the individual of the rules which the community has evolved for its own preservation.

Impropriety is the soul of wit.

She saw shrewdly that the world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willingly avoids the sight of distress.

I forget who it was that recommended men for their soul's good to do each day two things they disliked ... it is a precept that I have followed scrupulously; f…