Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance.

I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.

Given two tempers and the time, the ordinary marriage produces anarchy.

No, one couldn't make a revolution, one couldn't even start a riot, with sheep that asked only for better browsing.

To a thrifty theologian, bent on redemption with economy, there are few points of ethics too fine-spun for splitting.

Passion alone could destroy passion. All the thinking in the world could not make so much as a dent in its surface.

It is easy to convince a man who already thinks as you do.