Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing -a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces.

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

Hypocrisy ... is only bad when it is improperly used.

Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. If all economists were laid end to end they would not reach a conclusion.

Paradoxes are the only truths.

You cannot be a hero without being a coward.

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.