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

Anger as well as love casts out fear.

the profession of the ministry is like matrimony: if it is possible for you to keep out of it, it's a sign that you've no business to go into it!

There is no embarrassment quite like the embarrassment of listening to a person for whom one has a regard making a fool of himself.

as everybody knows, truthfulness and agreeable manners are often divorced on the ground of incompatibility.

We've all of us got to meet the devil alone. Temptation is a lonely business.

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