The robe of flesh wears thin, and with the years God shines through all things.

To see what is right and not to do it is cowardice. It is never a question of who is right but what is right.

I am an ordinary sort of fellow, not braver than other people, but I hate to see a good man downed, and that long knife would not be the end of Scudder if I could play the game in his place.

I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest.

Without humility there can be no humanity.

The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them.

Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.