I do strive to think well of my fellow man, but no amount of striving can give me confidence in the wisdom of a congressional vote.

We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.

Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.

A real dog, beloved and therefore pampered by his mistress, is a lamentable spectacle. He suffers from fatty degeneration of his moral being.

Discussion without asperity, sympathy with fusion, gayety unracked by too abundant jests, mental ease in approaching one another; these are the things which give a pleasant smoothness to the rough edge of life.

It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence.

The cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.