You cannot find, make or understand true friendship without having enemies.

Distaste sounds more emphatic when expressed as moral disapproval. With most of us the moral counterblast is nothing more than the angry rendering of a yawn.

Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.

In middle life politics are not a mental acquisition; they are a temperament.

Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?

Sin in this country has been always said to be rather calculating than impulsive.

As wounded men may limp through life, so our war minds may not regain the balance of their thoughts for decades.