Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.

Love supreme defies all sophistry.

I've been turning it over in after-dinner speeches, but it looks awkward-it's not what people are used to-it wants a good deal of Latin to make it go down.

Solomon's Proverbs, I think, have omitted to say, that as the sore palate findeth grit, so an uneasy consciousness heareth innuendos.

in certain crises direct expression of sympathy is the least possible to those who most feel sympathy.

There's folks 'ud stand on their heads and then say the fault was i' their boots.

Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.