Better to be without logic than without feeling.

It is one of my faults, that though my tongue is sometimes prompt enough at an answer, there are times when it sadly fails me in framing an excuse; and always the lapse occurs at some crisis, when a facile word or plausible pretext is specially wanted to get me out of painful embarrassment.

If life be a war, it seemed my destiny to conduct it single-handed.

Make my happiness--I will make yours.

What have I to do with millions [of people]? The eighty I know despise me.

For those who are not hungry, it is easy to palaver about the degradation of charity.

If he were insane, however, his was a very cool and collected insanity.