The things young women read nowadays and profess to enjoy positively frighten me.

It's astonishing in this world how things don't turn out at all the way you expect them to.

When engaged in eating, the brain should be the servant of the stomach.

There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.

I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't, luckily, have to bother about that.

Too much mercy... often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice had been put first and mercy second.

Bad temper is its own safety valve. He who can bark does not bite.