Like all lawyers, I was delighted by gratitude. It happened so rarely.

But if we never acted except when we were certain our motives were pure, we would never act at all.

It seems a universal rule in this world that people will always look for victims and scapegoats, does it not? Especially at times of difficulty and tension.

If I knocked and waited at every door, who knows what I might miss?

We of alien looks or words must stick together.

The echoes of childhood torments have great power, even when not brought to mind in such an inexplicable and horrifying way.

In worshipping their nationhood men worship themselves and scorn others, and that is no healthy thing.