When it comes to bombshells, there are few that can be more effective than that small, flat, frail thing, a letter.

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

A sneer is like a flame; it may occasionally be curative because it cauterizes, but it leaves a bitter scar.

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.

As soon as you feel too old to do a thing, do it.

... 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.

Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.