The best part about being alone is that you really don't have to answer to anybody. You do what you want.
Gossip is called gossip because it's not always the truth.
But the wicked passions of men's hearts alone seem strong enough to leave...
My parents and grandparents have always been engaged in teaching or the medical profession or the priesthood so I've sort of grown up with a sense of complicity in the lives of other people so there's no virtue in that it's the way one is raised.