One cannot lay a foundation by scattering stones, nor is a reputation for good work to be got by strewing volumes about the world.

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

The hardest thing to believe when you're young is that people will fight to stay in a rut, but not to get out of one.

Life may take away happiness. But it can't take away having had it.

Nothing, except the weather report or a general maxim of conduct, is so unsafe to rely upon as a theory of fiction.

You look as if you had lived on duty and it hadn't agreed with you.

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