... if a man really and truly believed that black was white, you might advise him to see an oculist, but you mustn't call him a liar.

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

By some mysterious method, Susan Carr's gossip gave the listener a gentler feeling towards his kind. When she spoke of her neighbors' faults, one knew that somehow they were simply virtues gone to seed.

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

If you give way to fear, you'll be a coward; and ... a coward is apt to be a liar. The devil's first name is Fear.

I have no faith in a human critter who hasn't one or two bad habits.

Grief is the price Love pays for being in the same world with Death.