... though not invariably the worst choice, war is always an obscene horror.

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

Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do.

... the ordinary is simply the universal observed from the surface, that the direct approach to reality is not without, but within. Touch life anywhereand you will touch universality wherever you touch the earth.

There is no state of satisfaction, because to himself no man is a success.

Surely one of the peculiar habits of circumstances is the way they follow, in their eternal recurrence, a single course. If an event happens once in a life, it may be depended upon to repeat later its general design.

I ain't never seen no head so level that it could bear the lettin' in of politics.