a short cut to matrimonial unhappiness is not to have the same taste in jokes!

I'm not to blame for an old body, but I would be to blame for an old soul. An old soul is a shameful thing.

Convictions do not imply reasons.

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

There is a bond, it appears, between mother and child which endures as long as they do. It is independent of love; reason cannot weaken it; hate cannot destroy it.

... some of the things floating about in the Well of Memory are not worth recording.

there couldn't be war, unless lies were believed. War has to be nourished by lies.