... safety that depends on an apron-string is very unsafe!

as I get older there is nothing more constantly astonishing to me than the goodness of the Bad; - unless it is the badness of the Good.

I've always thought the law ought to put on spectacles, it has mighty poor eyesight once in a while.

When two duties jostle each other, one of 'em isn't a duty.

faith, it seems to me, is not the holding of certain dogmas; it is simply openness and readiness of heart to believe any truth which God may show.

The insolence of time is like a blow in the face from an unseen enemy.

Fighting should be left to dogs and cats and chickens, who can't reason.