We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stutter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.

If we shake hands with icy fingers, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.

Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.

Growing old is not a gradual decline, but a series of drops, full of sorrow, from one ledge to another below it.

The emergence of a new term to describe a certain phenomenon, of a new adjective to designate a certain quality, is always of interest, both linguistically and from the point of view of the history of human thought.

When we say we are certain so-and-so can't possibly have done it, what we mean is that we think he very likely did.

I like to walk down Bond Street, thinking of all the things I don't desire.