People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

...It's natural to believe in the supernatural. It never feels natural to accept only natural things.

The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.

And it is always the humble man who talks too much; the proud man watches himself too closely.

Ingratitude is surely the chief of the intellectual sins of man. He takes his political benefits for granted, just as he takes the skies and the seasons for granted.

Any one of the strange laws we suffer is a compromise between a fad and a vested interest.

Silence is the unbearable repartee.