Plain lies are dangerous.

I often think when a man's once past a certain age, the older he grows the tougher he gets, and women the same or more so.

Forgiveness is the one unpardonable sin.

You're thinking that people don't keep up old jealousies for twenty years or so. Perhaps not. Not just primitive, brute jealousy. That means a word and a blow. But the thing that rankles is hurt vanity. That sticks. Humiliation. And we've all got a sore spot we don't like to have touched.

Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse.

While time lasts there will always be a future, and that future will hold both good and evil, since the world is made to that mingled pattern.

Of all devils let loose in the world there is no devil like devoted love.