To talk over a quarrel, with its inevitable accompaniment of self-justification, is too much like handling cobwebs to be very successful.

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

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

... is there anything more unjust than to build gold and brass and iron on poor, well-meaning clay, -- and then blame the clay when the whole image falls into dust?

the attempt to break a habit of years is necessarily experimental.

If you are kind to an enemy, you cannot hate him.

moral vanity is the snare of good people.