Good Neighbors and Other Strangers

One who can define kindness only as the absence of cruelty has surely not begun to understand the nature of either.

A crisis passed usually means another one approached.

She likes to talk, but her mill often shuts off suddenly, because of a quality of hers which I find good as well as rare: I mean that when she has no more to say she doesn’t go on talking.

What hurts us worst is to have our favorite self-deceptions stripped away.