If you want to keep a friend, never test him.

So many old and lovely things are stored in the world's attic because we don't want them around us and we don't dare throw them out.

This was an evil beyond thinking. The killing of a man was not so evil as the killing of a boat. For a boat does not have sons, and a boat cannot protect itself, and a wounded boat does not heal.

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.

I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments

A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.

The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.